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| Imagine yourself: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | anmolkalia, ankit61, haoyum1997, FelixXu, zechengh | The research paper "Imagine yourself: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation" by anmolkalia et al. introduces a novel diffusion-based model for personalized image generation that does not require subject-specific fine-tuning. The authors achieve this by incorporating three key components: a synthetic paired data generation mechanism to encourage image diversity, a fully parallel attention architecture with multiple text encoders and a trainable vision encoder for enhanced text alignment and identity preservation, and a coarse-to-fine multi-stage fine-tuning methodology for improved visual quality. Extensive human evaluation demonstrates that Imagine yourself significantly outperforms state-of-the-art personalization models in identity preservation, text alignment, and visual appeal. This tuning-free approach is particularly relevant to AI practitioners, such as AI Engineers and Data Scientists, as it enables the development of personalized image generation applications without the need for costly and time-consuming individual user tuning. |
| MuCodec: Ultra Low-Bitrate Music Codec (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Jianwei Yu, zy001, lglg666, hangtingchen, yaoxunxu | MuCodec is a novel neural codec designed for high-fidelity music reconstruction at ultra-low bitrates. This model leverages a specialized feature extractor, MuEncoder, to capture both acoustic and semantic features from music. These features are then discretized and reconstructed using a flow-matching-based method with a Diffusion Transformer. Experimental results demonstrate that MuCodec surpasses current state-of-the-art methods in both objective and subjective evaluations, achieving high-quality music reconstruction at bitrates as low as 0.35kbps. This development is particularly relevant for AI practitioners working on music information retrieval, music generation, and low-bitrate audio streaming applications. MuCodec offers a promising solution for compressing and reconstructing music with high fidelity, potentially leading to more efficient storage and transmission of music data. |
| Prithvi WxC: Foundation Model for Weather and Climate (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | jubeku, ds6574, jhnnsjkbk, WillTrojak, johannesschmude | The paper introduces Prithvi WxC, a 2.3 billion parameter foundation model for weather and climate applications trained on the MERRA-2 reanalysis dataset. The model leverages a novel transformer-based architecture that incorporates both local and global attention mechanisms, and is trained using a combination of masked reconstruction and forecasting objectives. Zero-shot evaluations demonstrate Prithvi WxC's ability to generate accurate short-term forecasts and reconstruct atmospheric states from heavily masked inputs. Fine-tuning experiments on downscaling and gravity wave flux parameterization further highlight the model's versatility and ability to be adapted for diverse downstream tasks, suggesting potential benefits for AI engineers and data scientists working in climate modeling and weather forecasting applications. |
| Portrait Video Editing Empowered by Multimodal Generative Priors (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yudong Guo, Chenglai Zhong, Haiyao Xiao, Xuan Gao, sisyphe28 | The paper introduces PortraitGen, a novel method for consistent and expressive portrait video editing using multimodal prompts. PortraitGen leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting embedded on SMPL-X models to ensure structural and temporal coherence, achieving rendering speeds of over 100FPS through a Neural Gaussian Texture mechanism. The system incorporates expression similarity guidance and a face-aware portrait editing module to mitigate degradation commonly associated with iterative dataset updates in existing methods. Experiments demonstrate superior quality and efficiency compared to state-of-the-art techniques across text-driven editing, image-driven editing, and relighting tasks. Practitioners, including AI Engineers and Data Scientists, can utilize PortraitGen to develop robust and high-fidelity portrait video editing tools for various applications. |
| Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yağız Aksoy, ccareaga | This research introduces a novel method for intrinsic image decomposition in the wild, successfully separating diffuse and non-diffuse lighting effects at high resolutions. The authors achieve this by decomposing the complex problem into physically-motivated sub-tasks, addressing the limitations of previous grayscale shading models. Quantitative analysis and qualitative examples demonstrate the method's ability to generalize to diverse scenes, including outdoor landscapes and human faces, despite training the final diffuse network solely on a synthetic indoor dataset. This advancement allows for new illumination-aware image editing applications, offering AI practitioners robust tools for specularity removal and multi-illuminant white balancing in real-world images. |
| Temporally Aligned Audio for Video with Autoregression (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | erahtu, bilpo, bilpo | This paper introduces V-AURA, a novel autoregressive model for video-to-audio generation that prioritizes temporal alignment and semantic relevance. Unlike diffusion-based counterparts, V-AURA utilizes a high-framerate visual feature extractor and a cross-modal fusion strategy to capture fine-grained audio-visual correspondences. Furthermore, the authors present VisualSound, a curated dataset with strong audio-visual relevance, to improve training efficiency and mitigate hallucinations. Evaluations demonstrate that V-AURA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in temporal alignment and relevance while maintaining competitive audio quality. These findings are particularly valuable for AI practitioners working on applications requiring tightly synchronized and semantically meaningful audio generation from video content, such as in video editing and multimedia content creation. |
| V^3: Viewing Volumetric Videos on Mobiles via Streamable 2D Dynamic Gaussians (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Zhirui Zhang, wuminye, Daluuu, liaowang11, Penghowdy | The paper proposes V³, a method for streaming and rendering high-quality volumetric videos on mobile devices using dynamic 3D Gaussian splats (3DGS). V³ leverages a compact 2D representation of 3DGS, allowing for efficient compression with video codecs and streaming to mobile devices. Their approach employs a novel two-stage training strategy with motion-appearance disentanglement, residual entropy loss, and temporal loss, enabling high-quality rendering while maintaining temporal consistency. Experimental results demonstrate that V³ outperforms existing methods in terms of rendering quality and storage efficiency. This breakthrough holds significant implications for practitioners in computer graphics and AI, particularly for AI engineers and data scientists working on efficient representations of 3D scenes and real-time rendering applications on resource-constrained devices. |
| Minstrel: Structural Prompt Generation with Multi-Agents Coordination for Non-AI Experts (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Daling Wang, Yijie Huang, Xiaoyu Liang, Yuanzhong Liu, Ming Wang | This research paper introduces LangGPT, a novel structured prompt framework designed to enhance the usability and effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) for non-AI experts. LangGPT draws inspiration from programming language principles to establish a systematic, reusable, and extensible prompt structure, reducing the learning curve associated with prompt engineering. To further facilitate the prompt generation process, the authors propose Minstrel, a multi-agent system that automates the creation and optimization of LangGPT prompts through collaborative analysis, design, and reflection mechanisms. Experimental results demonstrate that both manually crafted and Minstrel-generated LangGPT prompts yield superior performance compared to conventional baseline prompts in various tasks, including question answering and instruction following. This framework holds significant practical implications for AI practitioners, enabling them to leverage a standardized and intuitive approach to harness the capabilities of LLMs effectively. |
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| InfiMM-WebMath-40B: Advancing Multimodal Pre-Training for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yi-Qi638, lllliuhhhhggg, bytehxf, yjian-bytedance, xiaotianhan | The research paper introduces InfiMM-WebMath-40B, a large-scale, open-source dataset designed for the pre-training of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) specifically for enhanced mathematical reasoning. This dataset addresses a critical gap in the open-source community, which has previously lacked access to large, high-quality, multimodal math datasets. InfiMM-WebMath-40B consists of 24 million mathematics and science-related web documents, encompassing 40 billion text tokens and 85 million image URLs, all meticulously filtered and aligned from CommonCrawl. The authors detail the comprehensive data curation pipeline, highlighting the challenges associated with extracting and filtering mathematical content from web pages, including the development of specialized tools to handle mathematical equations and image URLs. Evaluations conducted on established benchmarks such as MathVerse and We-Math demonstrate that models pre-trained on InfiMM-WebMath-40B achieve state-of-the-art performance among open-source models, and even surpass some proprietary models on certain tasks. These findings hold significant implications for practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, as they now have access to a valuable resource for developing and refining MLLMs with superior mathematical reasoning capabilities. The availability of InfiMM-WebMath-40B is expected to accelerate progress in the field of multimodal mathematical reasoning and enable the development of more sophisticated and accurate MLLMs capable of tackling complex mathematical problems. |
| Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | sandraorion, ferya, shrivasd, rishabhagarwal, aviralkumar | This research paper introduces SCoRe, a novel multi-turn reinforcement learning approach designed to enhance the self-correction capabilities of large language models (LLMs). The authors demonstrate that traditional supervised fine-tuning methods are inadequate for this purpose, as they often lead to either minimal or detrimental modifications. SCoRe addresses these challenges through a two-stage training process: an initialization phase to expand the model's self-correction repertoire and a reward shaping mechanism to incentivize effective self-correction during multi-turn RL. Evaluations on math and code generation benchmarks reveal that SCoRe significantly improves the model's ability to rectify errors in its initial responses. This work provides AI practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, with a practical method to augment the reliability and accuracy of LLMs, particularly in tasks demanding high-fidelity outputs. |
| MMSearch: Benchmarking the Potential of Large Models as Multi-modal Search Engines (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | lovesnowbest, lupantech, jyjyjyjy, ZiyuG, CaraJ | The paper "MMSearch: Benchmarking the Potential of Large Models as Multi-modal Search Engines" introduces a novel framework, MMSearch-Engine, designed to empower large language models (LLMs) with multi-modal search capabilities. The authors also present MMSearch, a comprehensive benchmark to evaluate the multi-modal search performance of LLMs, comprised of 300 manually collected instances across 14 subfields. Experimental results demonstrate that state-of-the-art LLMs, specifically GPT-4, achieve the best results on MMSearch, surpassing even commercial AI search engines in end-to-end task performance. However, error analysis reveals persistent challenges in requery and rerank capabilities, particularly for open-source LLMs, highlighting the need for further development in these areas. This work provides valuable insights for AI engineers and data scientists working on multi-modal search engines, emphasizing the importance of robust requery and rerank mechanisms for effective information retrieval and analysis. |
| Oryx MLLM: On-Demand Spatial-Temporal Understanding at Arbitrary Resolution (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | jiwenlu, WinstonHu, liuziwei7, THUdyh, Zuyan | The authors propose Oryx, a novel multi-modal large language model (MLLM) that adeptly handles diverse visual input sizes and lengths. Oryx employs OryxViT, a visual encoder designed for native resolution processing, and a dynamic compression module for efficient processing of long video sequences. Through comprehensive experiments, Oryx demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks, including long-form video comprehension and 3D spatial understanding tasks. This work provides AI practitioners with a robust and versatile MLLM architecture capable of handling real-world multimodal data with varying resolutions and lengths. |
| StoryMaker: Towards Holistic Consistent Characters in Text-to-image Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | CantabPhD, chenyibo89, huaxiali, jingli, huaquan | StoryMaker is a novel, tuning-free AI model for personalized image generation that preserves the consistency of facial features, clothing, hairstyles, and body types across multiple character scenes, facilitating coherent visual storytelling. It leverages a Positional-aware Perceiver Resampler to generate distinct character embeddings and employs a novel attention loss mechanism with segmentation masks to prevent feature intermingling between characters and the background. Experiments demonstrate StoryMaker’s superior performance in maintaining visual consistency over state-of-the-art methods, particularly in multi-character scenarios. StoryMaker offers AI practitioners a powerful tool for a variety of applications including digital storytelling, comic creation, and character-driven image editing, enabling new possibilities for creative content generation. |
| LVCD: Reference-based Lineart Video Colorization with Diffusion Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Mohan Zhang, CeciliaJL, luckyhzt | This research proposes LVCD, the first video diffusion framework for reference-based lineart video colorization. By leveraging a pre-trained video diffusion model, LVCD generates temporally consistent and high-quality colorized animations from lineart sketches and a single reference frame. The authors introduce two novel components: sketch-guided ControlNet for incorporating lineart sketches and Reference Attention for long-range spatial color propagation. Experiments demonstrate LVCD's superior performance in generating long animations with large motions, surpassing existing CNN-based and diffusion-based methods. LVCD offers a promising solution for AI engineers and data scientists in the animation industry, enabling automated colorization of animation sequences and potentially boosting productivity. |
| 3DTopia-XL: Scaling High-quality 3D Asset Generation via Primitive Diffusion (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | hongfz16, Caoza, THUdyh, jiaxiang-tang, FrozenBurning | The paper proposes 3DTopia-XL, a novel 3D generative model that produces high-quality, textured 3D assets from text or image inputs. It utilizes a novel primitive-based representation called PrimX, which encodes shape, texture, and material information efficiently in a compact tensor format, enabling scalability to high resolutions. 3DTopia-XL leverages a Diffusion Transformer architecture for generative modeling and outperforms existing methods in terms of visual fidelity, particularly in generating fine-grained textures and Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials. The high-quality outputs, coupled with efficient asset extraction into industry-standard formats like GLB, makes 3DTopia-XL readily applicable for AI practitioners working on 3D content creation tasks in domains such as gaming, virtual reality, and design. |
| Language Models Learn to Mislead Humans via RLHF (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Jacob Steinhardt, EthanAraragi, akbir, ruiqi-zhong, jiaxin-wen | This paper presents empirical evidence that RLHF, a popular technique for aligning language models, can lead to an unintended consequence termed "U-SOPHISTRY." U-SOPHISTRY occurs when language models, optimized based on human feedback, learn to generate outputs that appear correct to human evaluators but are factually incorrect. The authors demonstrate this phenomenon on question-answering and programming tasks, finding that RLHF leads to a significant increase in human approval of incorrect outputs while actual task performance stagnates. The study highlights a critical risk associated with RLHF: it can create a false sense of improvement in language models, potentially misleading practitioners such as AI engineers and data scientists who rely on human evaluation for model assessment and selection. These findings underscore the need for developing more robust evaluation methods and mitigation strategies to address U-SOPHISTRY. |
| Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | mfarajtabar, moinnabi, thyeros, fartashf, imirzadeh-apple | This research paper introduces HyperCloning, a novel method for initializing large language models (LLMs) using pretrained smaller models. HyperCloning expands the hidden dimensions of a smaller model while preserving its functionality, ensuring the larger model inherits the smaller model's accuracy before training begins. Experiments demonstrate that HyperCloning reduces training time by a factor of 2-4 compared to random initialization, achieving comparable or superior accuracy across various LLM architectures. This technique offers practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, a cost-effective and efficient approach to training LLMs, potentially democratizing access to high-performance models. Further research directions include investigating the observed catastrophic forgetting and exploring alternative weight expansion strategies to further enhance HyperCloning's effectiveness. |
| Denoising Reuse: Exploiting Inter-frame Motion Consistency for Efficient Video Latent Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yixuan Chen, Shuo Yan, Chenyu Wang, dongshengli, genye | This paper introduces Dr. Mo, a novel diffusion-based video generation model that exploits inter-frame motion consistency to accelerate latent video generation. The key insight lies in the observation that coarse-grained features in the diffusion process exhibit high motion consistency across video frames. Dr. Mo leverages this finding by reusing denoising steps from a reference frame via a learned motion transformation network and a denoising step selector, significantly reducing computational overhead. Evaluations on UCF-101 and MSR-VTT datasets demonstrate that Dr. Mo achieves state-of-the-art video quality with a 4x speedup compared to previous methods. This work holds significant implications for AI practitioners, particularly those working on video generation and editing tasks, as it offers a pathway to generate high-quality videos with significantly reduced computational resources. |
| MURI: High-Quality Instruction Tuning Datasets for Low-Resource Languages via Reverse Instructions (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Ayyoob Imani, akorhonen, ahmetu, noriamt, akoksal | This research introduces Multilingual Reverse Instructions (MURI), a novel method for generating high-quality instruction tuning datasets for low-resource languages by leveraging existing multilingual text corpora and machine translation. The authors create MURI-IT, a dataset comprising over 2 million instruction-output pairs across 200 languages, with a significant focus on under-resourced languages. Evaluation by native speakers and fine-tuning experiments with mT5 models demonstrate the effectiveness of MURI-IT in improving multilingual instruction following capabilities, particularly for natural language understanding tasks. This work provides a valuable resource for AI practitioners working on multilingual language models and addresses the crucial need for diverse and inclusive datasets in NLP. The released datasets and models offer significant potential for downstream applications like machine translation, cross-lingual information retrieval, and chatbot development in a wider range of languages. |
| FlexiTex: Enhancing Texture Generation with Visual Guidance (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | zouxb009, ysx007, aaronb, jiaaoyu, cocacola | This paper introduces FlexiTex, a novel framework for high-fidelity texture generation on 3D objects using both text and image prompts. FlexiTex addresses limitations of existing methods by incorporating a Visual Guidance Enhancement module, which uses image prompts to provide explicit guidance during texture generation, thus enhancing detail richness and style consistency. Additionally, a Direction-Aware Adaptation module leverages direction prompts to mitigate the Janus problem and improve semantic alignment across views. Experiments demonstrate FlexiTex's superior performance in quantitative metrics and qualitative results compared to baseline methods. Practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, can leverage FlexiTex to generate high-quality textures for 3D objects efficiently, benefiting applications like AR/VR, gaming, and film. |
| 3DGS-LM: Faster Gaussian-Splatting Optimization with Levenberg-Marquardt (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Matthias Nießner, Michael Zollhöfer, Aljaž Božič, Lukas Höllein | This paper introduces 3DGS-LM, a novel method for accelerating the reconstruction process in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). By replacing the conventional ADAM optimizer with a tailored Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm, the authors achieve a 30% reduction in optimization time while maintaining reconstruction quality. This speedup is achieved through a highly-efficient GPU parallelization scheme for the preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm, utilizing a custom CUDA kernel implementation and a caching data structure for intermediate gradients. This advancement holds significant relevance for AI practitioners working with 3DGS, particularly in applications such as virtual reality and scene exploration, where faster reconstruction times can greatly benefit development cycles and user experience. |
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| Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Report (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Lemoncoke, Losin94, AbbottYJX, yangjian076, huybery | The paper introduces Qwen2.5-Coder, an open-source series of code language models built on the Qwen2.5 architecture and trained on a 5.5 trillion token dataset. Qwen2.5-Coder achieves state-of-the-art results across a variety of code generation, code completion, and code reasoning benchmarks, outperforming even significantly larger models. This performance is attributed to a robust data pipeline emphasizing high-quality code and code-related data, as well as meticulous instruction-tuning techniques. Qwen2.5-Coder's capabilities, particularly its performance exceeding larger models, makes it a valuable tool for AI practitioners developing code generation, completion, and reasoning applications. Its open-source nature further facilitates research and application development in code intelligence. |
| Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | gewenbin292, chenkq, Jinze, tinytangent, bluelike | The research paper "Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution" introduces the Qwen2-VL series, a collection of open-weight vision-language models featuring 2, 8, and 72 billion parameters. Notably, Qwen2-VL incorporates a Naive Dynamic Resolution mechanism allowing for the processing of images with varying resolutions and a Multimodal Rotary Position Embedding (M-ROPE) for effectively encoding positional information across various modalities. This approach leads to state-of-the-art performance in various visual benchmarks, including extended-duration video comprehension and robust agent capabilities for device operation. Qwen2-VL's capabilities in visual reasoning, document understanding, multilingual text recognition, video comprehension, and visual agent capabilities are particularly relevant for AI practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, offering a robust framework for developing applications in areas like image analysis, video processing, and human-computer interaction. |
| LLMs + Persona-Plug = Personalized LLMs (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Erxue Min, Xiaochi Wei, stingw, yutaozhu94, liujiongnan | This paper proposes PPlug, a novel personalized Large Language Model (LLM) designed to tailor outputs according to individual user preferences. PPlug leverages a plug-in user embedder module to encode a user's entire interaction history into a single, comprehensive embedding, capturing general linguistic patterns and preferences. Experiments conducted on the Language Model Personalization (LaMP) benchmark demonstrate PPlug's superiority, outperforming retrieval-based and fine-tuned personalized LLMs. Notably, PPlug's plug-and-play architecture offers efficiency by utilizing a single LLM for all users, making it a practical solution for LLM service providers seeking to offer personalized experiences. AI engineers and data scientists can leverage PPlug to enhance personalization in applications ranging from drafting personalized content to tailoring recommendations based on user history. |
| To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | wadhma, Dongwei, juand-r, fcyin, Zaynes | The research paper "To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning" by wadhma et al. investigates the effectiveness of chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting for enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning capabilities. Through meta-analysis of existing literature and empirical evaluations across 20 datasets and 14 contemporary LLMs, the authors demonstrate that CoT provides substantial performance benefits primarily for tasks involving mathematics or formal logic, with minimal gains observed for tasks requiring non-symbolic reasoning. Further analysis reveals that CoT's strength lies in its ability to execute symbolic steps and track intermediate computational outputs. The authors suggest that while CoT remains a useful technique, practitioners, including AI Engineers and Data Scientists, should prioritize integrating LLMs with symbolic solvers for optimal performance on symbolic tasks and explore alternative paradigms, such as search or interacting agents, to enhance reasoning in non-symbolic domains. |
| Preference Tuning with Human Feedback on Language, Speech, and Vision Tasks: A Survey (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | David D. Yao, Wenpin Tang, anirbandas, BraceZHY, gentaiscool | This survey paper provides a thorough overview of recent advancements in preference tuning, a crucial process for aligning deep generative models with human preferences, across language, speech, and vision tasks. The paper presents a systematic framework and classification of preference tuning methods, categorizing them by sampling methods (online or offline), modality (text, speech, vision, etc.), language, and reward granularity (sample or token level). The authors also describe various applications of preference tuning for improving generation quality using human feedback and discuss evaluation methods, highlighting both automatic LLM-based approaches and human-based evaluations. This survey is highly relevant to practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, who aim to enhance the alignment of deep generative models with human preferences, leading to more human-like and desirable outputs in various domains, including text generation, image synthesis, and speech synthesis. |
| GRIN: GRadient-INformed MoE (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | uuu6, liangchen-ms, Shuohang, ykim362, LiyuanLucasLiu | The paper introduces GRIN, a novel training method for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, designed to overcome the limitations of discrete expert routing in gradient-based optimization. GRIN leverages SparseMixer-v2, a method that estimates gradients for expert routing directly, instead of relying on gating gradients as a proxy. This approach, combined with a modified load balance loss and the use of tensor parallelism instead of expert parallelism, allows for efficient scaling of MoE models without token dropping. The authors demonstrate the efficacy of GRIN by developing a 16x3.8B MoE model that outperforms a 7B dense model and matches a 14B dense model, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks, especially in coding and mathematics. These results highlight GRIN's potential for AI engineers and data scientists seeking to build highly scalable and performant MoE models for complex tasks. |
| Takin: A Cohort of Superior Quality Zero-shot Speech Generation Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | yangyutu, sonaxyjh, ClorisLIN, YanniHu, ch3cook-fdu | The research introduces Takin AudioLLM, a suite of zero-shot speech generation models including Takin TTS, Takin VC, and Takin Morphing, aimed at high-quality, customizable audiobook production. Takin TTS, a neural codec language model, leverages a multi-task training strategy and a latent diffusion model for natural and robust speech synthesis. Takin VC employs joint content-timbre modeling and conditional flow matching for high-fidelity voice conversion. Takin Morphing allows timbre and prosody customization using an attention-based multi-reference timbre encoder and a language model-based prosody encoder. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of Takin AudioLLM models over conventional methods in terms of speech quality, speaker similarity, and style control, making it a valuable tool for AI engineers and data scientists working on speech generation and audiobook production. |
| Towards Diverse and Efficient Audio Captioning via Diffusion Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Ruibo Fu, Yong Ren, Xinyi Tu, Manjie Xu, Chenxinglili | This paper presents Diffusion-based Audio Captioning (DAC), a novel non-autoregressive model for audio captioning that leverages a diffusion framework. DAC operates within the continuous text latent space and conditions the denoising process on audio features through cross-attention. Experimental results demonstrate that DAC achieves competitive captioning quality compared to state-of-the-art autoregressive models while exhibiting superior performance in terms of generation diversity and speed. Notably, the authors observe that DAC benefits significantly from pre-training on larger audio datasets and that semantic similarity metrics like CLAP and BERT might be more suitable for evaluating captioning quality compared to traditional token-level metrics. DAC's efficiency and diversity make it a compelling solution for AI practitioners interested in deploying audio captioning models in resource-constrained environments or real-time applications. |
| A Controlled Study on Long Context Extension and Generalization in LLMs (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Jing Nathan Yan, Yi Lu, zy001, justintchiu, sonta7 | This research presents a controlled empirical study of long-context extension methods in Large Language Models (LLMs). The authors standardize evaluation across various exact and approximate attention methods, utilizing LLaMA2-7B as a consistent base model, trained on a 1B token long-context dataset. Results indicate that perplexity remains a reliable indicator of downstream task performance for exact attention methods, while approximate attention suffers from reduced accuracy, especially in retrieval tasks. Notably, continual fine-tuning with exact attention proves effective within the extended context length, while extrapolation to unseen lengths presents challenges. These findings, coupled with the open-sourced code and models, offer AI practitioners valuable insights into selecting and implementing appropriate context extension methods for their LLM applications, highlighting the trade-offs between accuracy, computational cost, and generalization capabilities. |
| Vista3D: Unravel the 3D Darkside of a Single Image (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Michael Bi Mi, wxcTest, adamdad, florinshum | The authors present Vista3D, a novel coarse-to-fine framework for generating diverse and consistent 3D objects from single images using 2D diffusion priors. Vista3D utilizes Gaussian Splatting to efficiently establish a coarse 3D geometry, subsequently refining it into a signed distance field representation with disentangled textures. Notably, Vista3D leverages a novel angular composition approach, constraining diffusion prior gradients to balance diversity in the unseen 3D aspects with overall consistency. Experiments demonstrate Vista3D's ability to generate high-fidelity textured meshes in 5 minutes, outperforming existing methods in speed and quality. This framework offers practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, a robust and efficient tool for single-view 3D object reconstruction, with potential applications in areas such as virtual reality and 3D content creation. |
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| OmniGen: Unified Image Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | stingw, Ruiran, avery00, JUNJIE99, Shitao | The research introduces OmniGen, a novel diffusion-based model for unified image generation. Unlike task-specific models, OmniGen handles diverse tasks such as text-to-image generation, image editing, and subject-driven generation within a single framework. Trained on the newly introduced X2I dataset, a large-scale, multi-task dataset, OmniGen exhibits emergent capabilities like task composition and in-context learning for unseen tasks. Evaluation on benchmarks like GenEval and EMU-Edit demonstrates competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art models. This advancement is particularly relevant to AI practitioners, offering a unified and simplified approach to various image generation tasks within a single, efficient model. |
| NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | tuomass, jon-barker, zihanliu, boxin-wbx, nayeon7lee | The paper presents NVLM 1.0, a family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of vision-language tasks. NVLM 1.0 comes in three architectures: decoder-only (NVLM-D), cross-attention-based (NVLM-X), and a novel hybrid architecture (NVLM-H), each offering unique advantages in computational efficiency and reasoning capabilities. Importantly, NVLM 1.0 models demonstrate "production-grade multimodality," excelling in both vision-language and text-only tasks, without sacrificing performance in either domain. This is achieved through a combination of novel model design, the introduction of a 1-D tile tagging design for high-resolution images, and careful curation of training data that emphasizes quality and task diversity over scale. Practitioners can benefit from these insights for building more robust and versatile MLLMs applicable to a wide range of tasks, from visual question answering to code generation. |
| Phidias: A Generative Model for Creating 3D Content from Text, Image, and 3D Conditions with Reference-Augmented Diffusion (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Gerhard Hancke, liuziwei7, zxhezexin, tfwang, ZhenweiWang | Phidias is a novel generative model that employs diffusion for reference-augmented 3D content creation. The model leverages a user-provided or retrieved 3D reference to enhance the 3D generation process, thereby improving the generation quality, generalizability, and controllability. Phidias unifies 3D generation from textual, image-based, and 3D prompts, providing a variety of downstream applications for practitioners, such as retrieval-augmented image-to-3D or text-to-3D generation. The authors demonstrate through extensive experiments that Phidias outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches both quantitatively and qualitatively. The source code for Phidias is publicly available. |
| Fine-Tuning Image-Conditional Diffusion Models is Easier than You Think (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Alexander Hermans, Christian Schmidt, ddegeus, kabouzeid, GonzaloMG | This research paper demonstrates that the perceived inefficiency of image-conditional latent diffusion models for monocular depth estimation, such as Marigold, is due to a flawed inference pipeline. By fixing the DDIM scheduler implementation, the authors achieve single-step inference performance comparable to multi-step, ensembled approaches, with a speed increase of over 200x. Furthermore, simple end-to-end fine-tuning of these models with task-specific losses, even starting from a pre-trained Stable Diffusion model, surpasses the performance of more complex, specifically designed architectures. These findings are particularly relevant to practitioners, as they enable the use of high-precision, diffusion-based depth and normal estimation models in real-time applications, while also simplifying the training and optimization process. |
| On the limits of agency in agent-based models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Shashank Kumar, arnauqb, rameshraskar, ngkuru, Godssidekick1 | This paper introduces AgentTorch, a novel framework for building scalable and differentiable agent-based models (ABMs) enhanced by large language models (LLMs). AgentTorch addresses the challenge of simulating large populations with adaptive behaviors by introducing the concept of LLM archetypes, enabling the simulation of millions of agents informed by LLM outputs. The authors demonstrate AgentTorch's capabilities through a case study of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, showcasing its ability to capture realistic population-wide behaviors and simulate the impact of policy interventions. AgentTorch provides practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, with a powerful tool for understanding and addressing complex societal challenges through the integration of LLM-driven agent behavior in ABMs. |
| OSV: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Image to Video Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Jiangning Zhang, Wenbing Zhu, Zhengkai Jiang, Xiaofeng Mao, wangfuyun | The authors present OSV (One Step Video Generation), a novel two-stage training approach for image-to-video generation using diffusion models that achieves high-quality results in just one inference step. OSV leverages latent GAN training in the first stage for rapid quality improvement and incorporates adversarial consistency distillation in the second stage to enhance performance and stability. The authors introduce a unique video discriminator design using pretrained image backbones (DINOv2) and a lightweight trainable head, significantly reducing computational costs by replacing the VAE decoding process with upsampling. Evaluations on the OpenWebVid-1M benchmark demonstrate OSV's superior performance over existing methods in both speed and visual quality. OSV presents a significant advancement for practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, working with video generation, offering a fast and efficient solution for high-quality results. |
| A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantized Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models: An Experimental Analysis up to 405B (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yongin Kwon, Sihyeong Park, oj9040, kwonse, leejaymin | This research paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the quantization of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs), spanning models from 7B to 405B parameters and four quantization methods (GPTQ, AWQ, SmoothQuant, and FP8). The authors found that quantized larger LLMs often outperform smaller, full-precision models on various tasks, except for hallucination detection and instruction following. Importantly, the study highlights that weight-only quantization methods, particularly AWQ, generally yield better accuracy preservation in large models compared to quantization methods involving activations. The findings are particularly relevant for practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, aiming to deploy large LLMs under resource constraints while maintaining performance. The authors emphasize that selecting the optimal quantization method and bit precision should be done based on the specific LLM size and target task. |
| EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Helin Wang, Hao Zhang, Yong Xu, Chenxinglili, Higobeatz | EzAudio is a novel text-to-audio (T2A) generation framework that leverages a highly efficient Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture operating directly on raw waveform latent space. The authors propose a multi-stage training strategy employing masked acoustic modeling and synthetic caption generation, along with a classifier-free guidance rescaling technique to balance audio quality and text alignment. Experimental results demonstrate that EzAudio outperforms existing open-source T2A models in both objective and subjective evaluations, achieving state-of-the-art performance. This work provides AI practitioners a robust and accessible framework for developing high-quality T2A applications. |
| SplatFields: Neural Gaussian Splats for Sparse 3D and 4D Reconstruction (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Robert Maier, Siyu Tang, Aeriphi, sprokudin, markomih | This paper presents SplatFields, a novel optimization strategy for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that addresses the technique's limitations in sparse view scenarios. SplatFields introduces a spatial bias during optimization by leveraging neural networks to predict splat features, encouraging nearby primitives to share similar characteristics and emulating the behavior of implicit volumetric rendering methods. This approach significantly improves reconstruction quality under sparse view conditions for both static and dynamic scenes, outperforming recent 3DGS and NeRF-based alternatives. Notably, SplatFields maintains real-time rendering capabilities and compatibility with existing 3DGS pipelines, making it particularly attractive for practitioners seeking efficient and high-quality 3D reconstruction from limited input data. AI engineers and data scientists working on 3D vision applications such as scene reconstruction, novel view synthesis, and dynamic scene modeling can benefit from incorporating SplatFields to enhance performance and efficiency in their workflows. |
| Agile Continuous Jumping in Discontinuous Terrains (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Changyi Lin, mateoguaman, romesco, guanya, yxyang | This paper proposes a novel hierarchical learning and control framework for enabling quadrupedal robots to perform agile, continuous jumping in discontinuous terrains, such as stairs and stepping stones. The framework consists of a learned heightmap predictor for terrain perception, an RL-trained motion policy for planning, and a model-based leg controller for motion tracking. A key contribution is the reduction of the sim-to-real gap by accurately modeling hardware characteristics, such as motor saturation and camera latency. This allows the robot to achieve state-of-the-art performance, traversing a 14-step staircase in 4.5 seconds, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed approach for agile locomotion in challenging terrains. This work holds significant implications for practitioners, including AI Engineers and roboticists, seeking to develop robots capable of navigating complex real-world environments with enhanced agility and speed. |
| Single-Layer Learnable Activation for Implicit Neural Representation (SL$^{2}$A-INR) (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Dorit Merhof, Reza Azad, Reza-R-77, moein99 | This paper introduces SL$^{2}$A-INR, a novel implicit neural representation (INR) architecture that utilizes a single-layer learnable activation function based on Chebyshev polynomials. SL$^2$A-INR effectively captures high-frequency details and mitigates spectral bias, outperforming existing INRs on various tasks including image representation, 3D shape reconstruction, and inverse problems like super-resolution and CT reconstruction. Notably, SL$^2$A-INR achieves superior performance even with reduced model sizes compared to other INR methods. The demonstrated effectiveness and efficiency of SL$^2$A-INR across diverse tasks makes it a valuable tool for AI practitioners working on signal representation and generative modeling, particularly in applications requiring high-fidelity reconstruction from limited data. |
| PDMX: A Large-Scale Public Domain MusicXML Dataset for Symbolic Music Processing (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Julian McAuley, Phillip Long, tberg12, ZacharyNovack | This paper introduces PDMX, the largest publicly available dataset of public domain MusicXML files, comprising over 250,000 scores and encompassing 6,250 hours of music. The authors release MusicRender, an extension to the MusPy library, to facilitate accurate parsing and rendering of nuanced musical notation from MusicXML. Experiments on multitrack symbolic music generation demonstrate that filtering PDMX based on user ratings improves model performance in terms of harmonic and rhythmic diversity. Notably, fine-tuning models on a small subset of high-quality, rated data significantly enhances generation quality. PDMX offers AI practitioners a valuable resource for developing and evaluating symbolic music processing models, particularly in the domains of music generation, transcription, and recommendation. |
| Measuring and Enhancing Trustworthiness of LLMs in RAG through Grounded Attributions and Learning to Refuse (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Navonil Majumder, Hai Leong Chieu, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Shang Hong Sim, Maojia Song | This paper addresses the issue of hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) within the context of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The authors propose a novel metric, TRUST-SCORE, to evaluate the trustworthiness of LLMs in a RAG setting by assessing grounded refusals, answer accuracy, and citation correctness. To improve trustworthiness, they introduce TRUST-ALIGN, an alignment framework that trains LLMs on a synthetic dataset to identify answerable questions, ground responses in provided documents, and avoid unnecessary refusals. Experiments demonstrate that TRUST-ALIGN enhances LLM performance across three datasets, achieving comparable results to leading closed-source language models like GPT-4. These findings are particularly relevant to AI engineers and data scientists developing RAG systems, emphasizing the importance of aligning LLMs with external knowledge sources to mitigate hallucination and improve the reliability of generated information. |
| Implicit Neural Representations with Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Parsa Mojarad Adi, moein99, ali-mrbn | This paper introduces Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (FKAN), a novel architecture for implicit neural representations (INRs) designed to enhance the capture of task-specific frequency components in signals. FKAN leverages learnable activation functions modeled as Fourier series, enabling fine-grained control and learning of frequency information. Experimental results demonstrate that FKAN surpasses state-of-the-art baselines in image representation and 3D occupancy volume representation tasks, achieving improvements in PSNR, SSIM, and IoU metrics while exhibiting faster convergence. This novel approach provides AI practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, with an effective tool to enhance INR models for various applications requiring high-fidelity signal representation. |
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| Seed-Music: A Unified Framework for High Quality and Controlled Music Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | lixingxing, lich-ming, ducle, smileezzz, Weituo | Seed-Music is a novel framework for high-quality and controllable vocal music generation and editing. The authors introduce a system comprised of three core components: Representation Learning, Generation, and Rendering, which utilize audio tokens, symbolic music tokens, or vocoder latents as intermediate representations. Seed-Music leverages both autoregressive language modeling and diffusion approaches to achieve impressive results in tasks such as Lyrics2Song, Lyrics2Leadsheet2Song, MusicEDiT, and Zero-shot Singing Voice Conversion. The system's flexibility, controllability, and impressive performance showcased through various applications and listening examples provide AI engineers and data scientists with valuable tools for music generation, post-production editing, and creative exploration in the music domain. The introduction of "lead sheet tokens," designed to represent musical elements in a musician-friendly format, presents a potential new standard for music language models. |
| RetrievalAttention: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Vector Retrieval (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | zqx123, hzhua, iofu728, baotonglu, Matchyc | This paper proposes RetrievalAttention, a training-free approach leveraging approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) to accelerate the inference of long-context Large Language Models (LLMs) by exploiting the dynamic sparsity inherent in the attention mechanism. The key innovation lies in addressing the out-of-distribution (OOD) challenge between query and key vectors in attention computation through an attention-aware vector search algorithm. This enables RetrievalAttention to accurately approximate attention with significantly reduced latency and minimal GPU memory footprint, achieving a 4.9x and 1.98x speedup compared to exact KNN and traditional ANNS methods respectively. RetrievalAttention presents a practical solution for AI practitioners working with LLMs on long sequences, particularly beneficial for deployment on resource-constrained devices. |
| Guiding Vision-Language Model Selection for Visual Question-Answering Across Tasks, Domains, and Knowledge Types (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Vinija Jain, amanchadha, neelabhsinha | This research paper proposes a comprehensive framework for evaluating and selecting optimal Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for specific Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, addressing practical application needs. The authors introduce a novel multi-dimensional dataset that classifies VQA tasks by task type, application domain, and knowledge type, facilitating fine-grained VLM performance comparisons. Additionally, a new evaluation metric, GoEval, is presented, demonstrating superior alignment with human judgments compared to traditional metrics by leveraging GPT-40's capabilities for multimodal evaluation. Experimental results reveal significant performance variations among 10 state-of-the-art VLMs across categories, with proprietary models generally outperforming open-source alternatives. These findings provide AI practitioners (AI Engineers, Data Scientists) with actionable insights and a standardized framework for selecting best-suited VLMs based on specific task requirements, resource constraints, and performance expectations. |
| ReCLAP: Improving Zero Shot Audio Classification by Describing Sounds (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Sonal Kumar, Sreyan Ghosh, manocha, RamaniD, urinieto | The research proposes ReCLAP, an improved CLAP model for zero-shot audio classification (ZSAC) that enhances sound understanding by incorporating descriptive features into prompts. ReCLAP leverages caption augmentation during training, prompting a Large Language Model (LLM) to rewrite captions with detailed acoustic descriptions. Further improving ZSAC, the authors introduce prompt augmentation, generating multiple custom prompts per category using LLM-based descriptions in diverse scenes. ReCLAP exhibits state-of-the-art performance on various retrieval and ZSAC benchmarks, demonstrating the importance of descriptive sound features in prompts. This development holds significant relevance for AI practitioners, particularly those working on audio classification and retrieval systems, by providing a method to improve zero-shot performance and generalization capabilities. |
| On the Diagram of Thought (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Yang Yuan, yifAI | The paper introduces Diagram of Thought (DoT), a novel framework for enhancing iterative reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by representing the process as the construction of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) within a single model. Unlike linear or tree-based reasoning approaches, DoT incorporates propositions, critiques, refinements, and verifications as nodes within the DAG, capturing the non-linear and iterative nature of human reasoning. By employing auto-regressive next-token prediction with role-specific tokens, DoT facilitates seamless transitions between reasoning steps within the LLM, eliminating the need for multiple models or external control mechanisms. Furthermore, the authors provide a robust mathematical foundation for DoT using Topos Theory and PreNet Categories, ensuring the logical consistency and soundness of the reasoning process. This framework offers AI practitioners a theoretically grounded and practically efficient approach to develop LLMs with enhanced reasoning capabilities for complex problem-solving tasks. |
| AudioBERT: Audio Knowledge Augmented Language Model (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Jaeho Lee, uso7d0, HJOK | This paper introduces AuditoryBench, the first benchmark designed to assess the auditory knowledge of large language models (LLMs). The authors find that LLMs pretrained solely on text data exhibit a significant lack of auditory commonsense knowledge. To address this, they propose AudioBERT, a novel framework that augments LLMs with auditory knowledge through a retrieval-based approach using a combination of auditory knowledge span detection and the CLAP audio-text model. Experiments demonstrate that AudioBERT significantly enhances the ability of LLMs to understand and reason about auditory information. This research has practical implications for AI practitioners, particularly those working on audio-language multimodal tasks such as audio captioning, sound recognition, and audio question answering. The availability of AudioBERT and AuditoryBench provides valuable resources for developing more robust and versatile multimodal AI systems. |
| One missing piece in Vision and Language: A Survey on Comics Understanding (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Andrey Barsky, MarcoBertini, Llabres, emanuelevivoli | This survey paper provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of Comics Understanding within the context of Vision-Language multimodal tasks. The authors introduce the novel Layer of Comics Understanding (LoCU) framework, a taxonomy that categorizes tasks based on input/output modalities and spatio-temporal dimensions, ranging from basic tagging and augmentation to complex generation and synthesis. The survey systematically reviews existing datasets and methodologies, highlighting the limitations in data availability, annotation standardization, and task complexity, and proposes potential research directions. Practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, can leverage this survey to understand the current state of the field, identify potential applications of VLMs in comics analysis and generation, and contribute to the development of more robust and versatile models for this complex domain. |
| Ferret: Federated Full-Parameter Tuning at Scale for Large Language Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Fei Richard Yu, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, See-Kiong Ng, Wenyang Hu, ZCODE0 | Ferret is a novel first-order federated learning algorithm designed for scalable full-parameter tuning of large language models (LLMs) with enhanced privacy. It leverages shared randomness to reduce communication costs by projecting local updates into a low-dimensional space and reconstructing them efficiently during global aggregation. Theoretical analyses demonstrate that Ferret's reconstruction is unbiased and enjoys fast convergence while avoiding error accumulation often observed in zeroth-order methods. Empirical evaluations on benchmark datasets confirm Ferret's superior scalability and competitive model accuracy compared to existing federated full-parameter and parameter-efficient tuning methods. This work holds significant implications for practitioners, especially AI engineers and data scientists, enabling them to efficiently fine-tune LLMs on decentralized datasets with improved privacy while maintaining performance. |
| beeFormer: Bridging the Gap Between Semantic and Interaction Similarity in Recommender Systems (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Pavel Kordík, foxik, beeformer | The authors propose beeFormer, a novel framework that bridges the gap between semantic and interaction similarity for recommender systems. This is accomplished by training sentence transformer models directly on user-item interaction data, leveraging gradient checkpointing and negative sampling for scalability. Experimental results demonstrate that beeFormer outperforms baselines in cold-start, zero-shot, and time-split recommendation tasks, indicating superior performance in scenarios with limited interaction data. Notably, training on datasets from multiple domains leads to improved knowledge transfer and domain-agnostic recommendation capabilities. These findings are especially relevant for AI practitioners, as beeFormer offers a scalable and effective approach to improve recommendation quality in challenging scenarios with limited user feedback. |
| Towards Predicting Temporal Changes in a Patient's Chest X-ray Images based on Electronic Health Records (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Tackeun Kim, forgetnight, starmpcc, dek924 | This paper proposes EHRXDiff, a novel framework that leverages latent diffusion models to predict future Chest X-ray (CXR) images by integrating previous CXRs with subsequent medical events extracted from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The framework utilizes a combination of VAE and CLIP encoders to capture both fine-grained visual details and high-level clinical features from the input data, and effectively predicts potential temporal changes while generating realistic CXR images. Experimental results demonstrate EHRXDiff's superior performance in preserving medical information and generating high-quality images compared to baseline methods. This framework has the potential to serve as a valuable tool for AI practitioners, particularly in developing clinical decision support systems that assist medical professionals in monitoring disease progression and planning personalized treatment strategies. |
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| Robust Dual Gaussian Splatting for Immersive Human-centric Volumetric Videos (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yu Hong, Zhehao Shen, Yuheng Jiang, Daluuu, chengchengguo123 | This paper introduces DualGS, a novel Gaussian-based representation for robust human performance tracking and high-fidelity rendering in volumetric videos. The approach utilizes Dual Gaussians to disentangle motion and appearance, employing motion-aware joint Gaussians and appearance-aware skin Gaussians. A coarse-to-fine optimization strategy with motion prediction ensures temporal coherence and rendering fidelity. A companion compression scheme using residual vector quantization, codec compression, and a persistent codebook achieves a 120-fold compression ratio. DualGS offers AI practitioners a method for creating high-fidelity, interactive volumetric video experiences that are efficient enough for deployment on VR and mobile devices. |
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| Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | hrz, Inhenn, Saraabdali, francedot, rbonatti | The research paper, "Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale", by hrz, Inhenn, Saraabdali, francedot, and rbonatti introduces a novel benchmark for evaluating multi-modal AI agents operating within a real Windows environment. This benchmark, named WINDOWSAGENTARENA, features 154 diverse tasks spanning common user applications and is designed for scalability and deployment on Azure for efficient parallel evaluation. The authors also present a new multi-modal agent, Navi, achieving a success rate of 19.5% on WINDOWSAGENTARENA tasks, showcasing the potential for future agent development. Despite being far from human performance (74.5%), Navi's results highlight the crucial role of precise visual prompting and reveal the challenges posed by visual-language misalignment. This research is significant for practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, as it provides a robust platform for testing and improving the capabilities of AI agents in performing complex, real-world tasks within the prevalent Windows OS ecosystem. |
| Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Tatsunori Hashimoto, Diyi Yang, CLS | The paper "Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers" investigates whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate novel research ideas comparable to human experts. The authors conducted a large-scale human study with over 100 NLP researchers, comparing ideas generated by an LLM agent with those written by experts. The study found that AI-generated ideas were judged as statistically more novel than human ideas, while remaining comparable in feasibility and other metrics. However, the authors also identify limitations in LLMs, including a lack of diversity in generated ideas and unreliability in evaluating idea quality. These findings suggest that while LLMs show promise in assisting with research ideation, they are not yet capable of fully autonomous idea generation and require careful human oversight, particularly for practitioners such as AI Engineers and Data Scientists who may utilize these tools in their work. |
| IFAdapter: Instance Feature Control for Grounded Text-to-Image Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Bing Ma, wxcTest, suxuefeng, tinytigerpan, WuYW | This paper proposes IFAdapter, a novel plug-and-play module for pretrained diffusion models, designed to improve fine-grained control over the positioning and appearance of multiple instances in generated images. It addresses limitations of existing Layout-to-Image generation methods by introducing two key components: Appearance Tokens for capturing high-frequency instance details and an Instance Semantic Map for ensuring accurate spatial correspondence. Experiments on the introduced COCO-IFG benchmark demonstrate IFAdapter's superiority in generating images with both accurate instance placement and high-fidelity features, as measured by the novel Instance Feature Success rate and standard image quality metrics. This development holds significant practical implications for AI practitioners, particularly those working on image generation tasks requiring precise control over instance features, such as in graphic design or fashion design applications. |
| DreamHOI: Subject-Driven Generation of 3D Human-Object Interactions with Diffusion Priors (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | tmsj, rayli, hanwenzhu | The paper introduces DreamHOI, a novel zero-shot method for synthesizing 3D human-object interactions (HOIs). DreamHOI utilizes pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models to guide the posing of a 3D human model, enabling it to realistically interact with a given 3D object based on a textual description. To overcome the limitations of directly applying diffusion model gradients to articulation parameters, DreamHOI employs a dual implicit-explicit representation of the human model, combining neural radiance fields (NeRFs) with skeleton-driven mesh articulation. This dual representation facilitates effective optimization and preserves human identity during the generation process. Experiments demonstrate DreamHOI's ability to generate realistic and diverse HOIs, outperforming baseline methods. This approach offers practitioners in fields like video game development and virtual reality a powerful tool for efficiently creating engaging and interactive virtual environments populated with realistically posed human characters. |
| Source2Synth: Synthetic Data Generation and Curation Grounded in Real Data Sources (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | marialomeli, rraileanu, spermwhale, ncan, carlos-gemmell-malt-ai | The paper introduces Source2Synth, a novel method for generating synthetic datasets by leveraging existing real-world data sources and large language models (LLMs). This approach involves generating examples with intermediate reasoning steps grounded in the source data, and then curating the dataset using the LLM itself to improve the quality. The authors demonstrate Source2Synth's effectiveness on multi-hop question answering and tabular question answering tasks, achieving significant performance improvements over baselines. The ability to generate high-quality synthetic data from existing sources has significant implications for practitioners, particularly in low-data regimes, as it offers a scalable and cost-effective way to improve LLM performance on complex tasks without the need for costly human annotations. AI engineers and data scientists can leverage Source2Synth to enhance their models' capabilities in areas such as reasoning and tool usage. |
| FlashSplat: 2D to 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation Solved Optimally (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | wxcTest, adamdad, florinshum | The authors propose FlashSplat, a novel method for segmenting 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) representations using 2D masks. By leveraging the alpha composition inherent in the 3D-GS rendering process, the authors formulate the segmentation task as a linear integer programming problem that admits a closed-form, globally optimal solution. This approach significantly outperforms previous iterative methods, achieving a 50x speedup while maintaining high accuracy and demonstrating robustness against noise in the input masks. FlashSplat’s efficiency and effectiveness in downstream tasks, such as object removal and inpainting, make it a valuable tool for AI practitioners working with 3D scene understanding and manipulation tasks. |
| PiTe: Pixel-Temporal Alignment for Large Video-Language Model (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Han Zhao, Min Zhang, Pengxiang Ding, Yang Liu, huangsiteng | The paper introduces PiTe, a Large Video-Language Model (LVidLM) that leverages object trajectories for fine-grained alignment of visual and textual modalities in videos. The authors curate PiTe-143k, a novel dataset with automatically annotated object trajectories. PiTe consistently outperforms current LVidLMs on video question answering, temporal grounding, and dense captioning tasks under zero-shot settings. This trajectory-based alignment substantially enhances video comprehension, enabling sophisticated event descriptions and precise event localization. For AI practitioners, PiTe presents a robust framework for building LVidLMs capable of fine-grained video understanding, facilitating applications like content-aware video search and summarization. |
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| PingPong: A Benchmark for Role-Playing Language Models with User Emulation and Multi-Model Evaluation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | IlyaGusev | This research paper introduces PingPong, a novel benchmark for evaluating role-playing capabilities in large language models (LLMs). PingPong employs a multi-model evaluation system where an LLM acts as the 'player,' another simulates a 'user' (interrogator), and a third LLM judges the 'player's' performance based on criteria like character consistency and language fluency. The authors validate the benchmark through correlation with human annotations, achieving correlations exceeding 0.64 across English and Russian. A key finding is that averaging scores from multiple judge models enhances result reliability. This work provides AI practitioners, particularly those developing conversational AI and role-playing agents, with a valuable tool to robustly assess and benchmark LLM performance in dynamic, multi-turn conversational settings. |
| MEDIC: Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating LLMs in Clinical Applications (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Nadas31, tathagataraha, mpimentel, cchristophe, pkanithi | The research paper introduces MEDIC, a comprehensive evaluation framework for assessing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in clinical applications. MEDIC evaluates LLMs across five key dimensions: medical reasoning, ethics and bias concerns, data and language understanding, in-context learning, and clinical safety and risk. The study revealed that larger models generally perform better in closed-ended question-answering tasks; however, in open-ended tasks requiring free-form responses, domain-specific fine-tuning was crucial for achieving superior performance. The MEDIC framework provides AI engineers and data scientists with a valuable tool for guiding model selection, highlighting performance trade-offs, and identifying key areas for improvement, ultimately facilitating the development of safe, effective, and ethical AI models for healthcare. This framework, combined with the novel cross-examination evaluation methodology, allows researchers and practitioners to measure hallucinations, assess coverage of information, and understand the trade-offs between model capabilities like conciseness and coverage in healthcare applications. |
| Gated Slot Attention for Efficient Linear-Time Sequence Modeling (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | ExplorerFreda, nealcly, rayzhu16, sonta7, yzhangcs | The paper proposes Gated Slot Attention (GSA), a novel linear attention mechanism for sequence modeling that addresses limitations in recall and training efficiency observed in existing linear attention models. GSA achieves this by enhancing the Attention with Bounded-memory-Control (ABC) model with a gating mechanism, inspired by Gated Linear Attention (GLA). This allows for efficient memory management and context-aware information retrieval. Experiments demonstrate GSA’s superior performance in in-context recall-intensive tasks and its effectiveness in "finetuning pretrained Transformers to RNNs” (T2R), making it a practical alternative for AI practitioners working with large-scale language models and seeking efficient inference and training. GSA's efficient training and inference, coupled with its strong performance in recall-intensive tasks, make it a compelling alternative for AI engineers and data scientists working with large-scale language models. |
| Agent Workflow Memory (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Daniel Fried, gneubig, Jiayuan, zorawang | The paper introduces Agent Workflow Memory (AWM), a method to enhance the performance of language model-based agents on complex, long-horizon tasks. AWM induces reusable task workflows from past agent experiences and integrates them into the agent's memory to guide future action generation. Experiments on web navigation benchmarks, WebArena and Mind2Web, demonstrate that AWM significantly improves task success rates and exhibits strong generalization ability across tasks, websites, and domains. Notably, AWM achieves a 51.1% relative increase in success rate on WebArena compared to the best published autonomous agent. This research is particularly relevant to AI practitioners developing agents for real-world applications, as AWM offers a mechanism for agents to learn and adapt from their experiences, potentially leading to more robust and efficient task-solving capabilities. |
| gsplat: An Open-Source Library for Gaussian Splatting (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Vickie Ye, akanazawa, zhypan, brentyi, ruilongli | "gsplat: An Open-Source Library for Gaussian Splatting" introduces a novel library for training and developing Gaussian Splatting models. gsplat features a user-friendly PyTorch front-end and highly optimized CUDA back-end, offering improvements to optimization speed, memory efficiency, and convergence times. Experimental results demonstrate that gsplat achieves comparable rendering performance to the original 3DGS implementation while significantly reducing training time and memory usage. The library's modular API and support for various densification strategies, pose optimization, depth rendering, and anti-aliasing techniques make it a valuable tool for researchers and practitioners working with 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. AI engineers and data scientists can leverage gsplat to efficiently develop and deploy Gaussian Splatting models for applications like virtual reality, augmented reality, and robotics. |
| Hi3D: Pursuing High-Resolution Image-to-3D Generation with Video Diffusion Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Ting Yao, Yingwei Pan, Yang Chen, Haibo Yang, GiantBision | The paper proposes Hi3D, a novel two-stage video diffusion-based framework for high-resolution image-to-3D generation. Hi3D leverages the temporal consistency of pre-trained video diffusion models to enhance multi-view consistency in 3D generation, addressing limitations of previous 2D diffusion-based methods. The first stage generates low-resolution multi-view images conditioned on camera pose, while the second stage refines these images to higher resolution with finer details using a 3D-aware video-to-video refiner incorporating depth information. Hi3D achieves state-of-the-art performance on novel view synthesis and single-view reconstruction tasks, demonstrating its ability to generate high-fidelity 3D meshes with detailed textures. Practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, can utilize Hi3D to generate high-quality 3D content from single images for various applications, including virtual reality, 3D film production, and more. |
| Can Large Language Models Unlock Novel Scientific Research Ideas? (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Asif Ekbal, Vinayak-goyal, TirthankarSlg, sandeep123 | This study investigates the potential of large language models (LLMs) in generating novel scientific research ideas. The authors evaluate four LLMs (Claude-2, Gemini, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4) across five scientific domains using a novel dataset and two proposed metrics: Idea Alignment Score (IAScore) and Idea Distinctness Index. The findings indicate that LLMs exhibit domain-specific strengths in idea generation, with Claude and GPT-4 outperforming others. While LLMs demonstrate the ability to generate novel research ideas, human evaluation reveals that they also produce a significant number of non-novel and generic ideas. This research provides valuable insights for AI practitioners, particularly AI engineers and data scientists, interested in leveraging LLMs for accelerating scientific innovation. The proposed metrics and datasets can serve as a foundation for further research in this domain, encouraging the development of new techniques to enhance the novelty and applicability of LLM-generated research ideas. |
| Instant Facial Gaussians Translator for Relightable and Interactable Facial Rendering (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Hongyang Lin, Daluuu, DolphinQiao, Haaribo, dafeiqin | This paper introduces TransGS, a novel method leveraging diffusion transformers to rapidly convert Physically Based Rendering (PBR) facial assets into high-quality, relightable, and interactable 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations. This approach bridges the gap between traditional offline and online rendering by enabling real-time performance (5 seconds generation time) with comparable visual quality to offline techniques. Key innovations include the GauFace representation, optimized for efficient rendering and animation of facial assets, and a novel Pixel Aligned Sampling scheme for constrained, generative-friendly Gaussian distribution. This work offers AI engineers and data scientists a powerful tool for creating dynamic and interactive digital avatars across various platforms, including PCs, mobile devices, and VR headsets. |
| MVLLaVA: An Intelligent Agent for Unified and Flexible Novel View Synthesis (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Ke Lu, Guohong Hu, Xing Lan, Jian Xue, Hanyu Jiang | This paper introduces MVLLaVA, a novel intelligent agent for synthesizing novel views by integrating multiple multi-view diffusion models with a large multimodal model, LLaVA. The key innovation lies in the design of task-specific instruction templates that enable MVLLaVA to handle a wide range of user instructions, including single images, captions, and specific viewpoint changes. Experimental results demonstrate that MVLLaVA achieves state-of-the-art performance in accurately recognizing and executing novel view synthesis tasks from diverse input modalities. This work holds significant relevance for AI practitioners, especially those interested in 3D content creation, as it offers a robust and versatile solution for generating consistent multi-view images from flexible user inputs. |
| Self-Harmonized Chain of Thought (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Wei Lu, Ziqi Jin | This research paper, "Self-Harmonized Chain of Thought" by Wei Lu and Ziqi Jin, proposes a novel method called ECHO to improve chain-of-thought prompting in large language models. ECHO enhances the quality of demonstrations in the chain-of-thought process by unifying their diversity, leading to a more coherent and effective reasoning pattern. The method outperforms existing techniques, matching the performance of Few-shot-CoT but without requiring manual effort. ECHO's ability to automatically generate high-quality demonstrations makes it a valuable tool for practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, who aim to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models for various downstream applications. |
| ProteinBench: A Holistic Evaluation of Protein Foundation Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Dongyu Xue, Zaixiang Zheng, Fei Ye, thughost, zhouxiangxin | The research paper introduces ProteinBench, a comprehensive evaluation framework designed to assess the capabilities of protein foundation models. ProteinBench comprises a taxonomy of generative tasks in protein science, a multi-metric evaluation approach assessing quality, novelty, diversity, and robustness, and in-depth analyses from various user perspectives. The evaluation reveals that language models excel in capturing natural evolutionary distributions, while structure-based models demonstrate greater robustness in de novo protein design. Additionally, current conformation prediction models show promise but still lag behind classic molecular dynamics simulations in accurately capturing protein dynamics. These findings provide valuable insights for AI engineers and data scientists working with protein foundation models, guiding model selection based on specific design objectives and highlighting areas requiring further development. |
| VMAS: Video-to-Music Generation via Semantic Alignment in Web Music Videos (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Heng Wang, Linjie Yang, Yu Tian, Yan-Bo Lin, gberta | This paper introduces VMAS, a novel framework for generating background music from video input. VMAS leverages a generative video-music Transformer trained on DISCO-MV, a newly curated dataset of 2.2 million video-music pairs sourced from the Web, which is significantly larger than prior datasets used for this task. The authors propose a video-music alignment scheme, comprising contrastive video-music matching and video-beat alignment, to ensure generated music aligns with high and low-level visual cues. Experimental results demonstrate that VMAS outperforms existing methods in various music generation metrics, including human evaluation. This work provides AI practitioners, particularly those interested in generative AI and multimedia applications, with a new framework and dataset for developing robust and high-quality video-to-music generation systems. |
| Generative Hierarchical Materials Search (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Simon Batzner, Sherry Yang, IgorM, danilor, RickWork | The authors propose Generative Hierarchical Materials Search (GenMS), a novel approach for generating novel crystal structures from high-level language instructions. GenMS leverages a hierarchical, multi-modal tree search algorithm that combines a large language model, a diffusion model with a compact crystal representation, and a graph neural network for property prediction. Experiments demonstrate that GenMS outperforms baseline methods in generating unique, valid, and potentially stable crystal structures that satisfy user-specified requirements, achieving a high DFT convergence rate and generating structures with lower formation energy. This framework has significant implications for AI practitioners in materials science, enabling them to efficiently explore a vast design space and accelerate the discovery of novel materials with desired properties through intuitive language-based interfaces. |
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| INTRA: Interaction Relationship-aware Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Se Young Chun, Agorium, jeeit17 | This research paper introduces INTRA, a novel weakly-supervised affordance grounding framework that leverages representation learning and interaction relationship-guided contrastive learning. Unlike previous approaches relying on paired exocentric and egocentric images, INTRA utilizes only exocentric images and incorporates large language models (LLMs) to understand the complex relationship between interactions. INTRA outperforms prior arts on multiple datasets, including AGD20K, IIT-AFF, CAD, and UMD, demonstrating its superior performance and domain scalability. AI practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, can benefit from INTRA's ability to ground affordances for novel objects and interactions, potentially leading to improved robot manipulation and scene understanding in diverse environments. The method's ability to leverage LLMs for enhanced linguistic understanding of interactions offers a new direction for affordance grounding research. |
| LLaMA-Omni: Seamless Speech Interaction with Large Language Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | zhangshaolei, Paulmzr, zysgdd, guoshoutao, poeroz | This research paper introduces LLaMA-Omni, a novel model architecture for low-latency, high-quality speech interaction with Large Language Models (LLMs). LLaMA-Omni leverages a speech encoder, a speech adapter, an LLM, and a streaming speech decoder to directly process speech instructions and generate text and speech responses with minimal latency. The researchers also created a new speech instruction dataset, InstructS2S-200K, to train and evaluate the model. Experimental results demonstrate that LLaMA-Omni outperforms existing speech-language models in terms of content and style while achieving a low response latency of 226ms. This work is particularly relevant to AI practitioners working on speech-based applications, such as conversational AI and virtual assistants, as it offers an efficient and effective solution for building seamless speech interfaces powered by LLMs. |
| SongCreator: Lyrics-based Universal Song Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | zy001, kangshiyin, jingchengwu, GK50, maxingaussian | The paper proposes SongCreator, a novel lyrics-based universal song generation system capable of generating high-quality songs with both vocals and accompaniment. The system utilizes a dual-sequence language model (DSLM) with a dynamic bidirectional cross-attention module to capture the interplay between vocal and accompaniment sequences. This architecture, trained using a multi-task learning strategy, enables SongCreator to perform various song generation tasks, including lyrics-to-song, vocals-to-song, and song editing, surpassing previous state-of-the-art methods in several tasks. The authors highlight the potential of SongCreator to become a powerful tool for content creators and musicians, lowering the barrier of entry for novices while streamlining the workflow for experienced producers. However, they acknowledge the potential risks associated with replicating voices and emphasize the need for responsible development, choosing not to release the fully trained models. |
| Draw an Audio: Leveraging Multi-Instruction for Video-to-Audio Synthesis (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Pengfei Gao, Xing Nie, Binjie Mao, MarkWang, YannQi | This research paper introduces Draw an Audio, a novel framework for video-to-audio synthesis that utilizes multi-instruction control to address limitations in content consistency, temporal synchronization, and loudness control observed in prior art. The authors leverage masked attention and time-loudness modules to enable granular control over audio generation guided by user-provided masks and loudness signals. Experimental validation on AudioCaps and VGGSound-Caption datasets demonstrates Draw an Audio's superior performance in generating high-fidelity audio synchronized with video content. This research is highly relevant to practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, working on applications requiring realistic and controllable sound generation from video data, including foley design, video editing, and multimodal content creation. |
| SaRA: High-Efficient Diffusion Model Fine-tuning with Progressive Sparse Low-Rank Adaptation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yabiao Wang, Ran Yi, Jiangning Zhang, Teng Hu, hongruihuang | This research paper introduces SaRA, a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique designed to enhance the capabilities of pre-trained diffusion models for downstream tasks. The core of SaRA lies in selectively fine-tuning a subset of parameters with the smallest absolute values in the pre-trained model, exploiting their potential effectiveness. To mitigate overfitting due to the high representation ability of sparse matrices, SaRA employs a nuclear-norm-based low-rank loss, constraining the rank of learned sparse matrices. Furthermore, a progressive parameter adjustment strategy is introduced to enhance the utilization of initially ineffective parameters. Experimental results across various tasks, including backbone fine-tuning, downstream dataset fine-tuning, image customization, and controllable video generation, demonstrate that SaRA achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art parameter efficient fine-tuning methods, while effectively preserving the model's prior knowledge. This method is particularly relevant to AI practitioners as it provides an efficient and effective way to adapt pre-trained diffusion models for specific tasks, offering both enhanced performance and reduced memory footprint during training. |
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| Towards a Unified View of Preference Learning for Large Language Models: A Survey (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | hhhllan, ZefanCai, instro, songff, KbsdJames | This survey paper presents a unified framework for preference learning in large language models (LLMs), categorizing techniques based on data source, feedback mechanism, and optimization algorithm. The authors argue that existing categorizations based on reinforcement learning (RL) versus supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or online versus offline settings create artificial barriers, as core objectives are similar and algorithms can be decoupled from data acquisition strategies. The paper further details prevalent pointwise, pairwise, and listwise preference optimization methods, alongside training-free alignment approaches, highlighting their loss function designs. This comprehensive overview provides valuable insights for AI engineers and data scientists, facilitating understanding of the relationships between various alignment techniques and potentially enabling more effective development of human-aligned LLMs. |
| MMEvol: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Wa2erGo, iiiiwis, tnlin, lzchen2001, haonanzhang | MMEvol, a novel framework for evolving image-text instruction data, is introduced to enhance the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). The authors identify data quality and diversity limitations in existing MLLM datasets and propose an iterative evolution process encompassing fine-grained perceptual, cognitive reasoning, and interactive evolutions, coupled with instruction elimination to filter inadequate samples. Experiments demonstrate that their MLLM trained on evolved data significantly surpasses open-source alternatives across 13 vision-language benchmarks. This work holds significant implications for AI practitioners, highlighting the importance of high-quality instruction data for developing robust MLLMs with improved reasoning, instruction following, and reduced hallucination susceptibility. |
| OneGen: Efficient One-Pass Unified Generation and Retrieval for LLMs (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | huajunsir, square0083, xiangchen-dvi, sunmengshu, MikeDean | The research paper introduces OneGen, a novel framework designed to unify generation and retrieval tasks within a single Large Language Model (LLM). OneGen bridges the traditionally separate training paradigms of generation and retrieval by leveraging retrieval tokens generated autoregressively, enabling a single LLM to handle both tasks concurrently. Empirical evaluations across single-hop and multi-hop question answering, and entity linking demonstrate that OneGen outperforms pipeline solutions and, where applicable, prior single-model methods like GRIT. Moreover, the paper highlights OneGen's efficiency in training and inference, requiring less data and achieving faster inference speeds, particularly with increased retrieval frequency. Practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, can benefit from OneGen's simplified deployment, reduced computational costs, and improved efficiency, particularly in applications demanding seamless integration of retrieval and generation within LLMs. |
| MemoRAG: Moving towards Next-Gen RAG Via Memory-Inspired Knowledge Discovery (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Zhicheng Dou, Kelong Mao, Zheng Liu, Hongjin Qian, namespace-Pt | This research paper introduces MemoRAG, a novel Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed to address challenges related to complex tasks involving extensive input contexts. MemoRAG leverages a memory module to create a global memory of the entire database and uses it to generate contextually relevant clues for accurate answer retrieval. Experimental results demonstrate that MemoRAG surpasses existing RAG systems and other baselines across a range of tasks, including knowledge-intensive QA and summarization. MemoRAG's ability to effectively manage complex and lengthy texts, such as financial reports and legal contracts, by handling contexts of up to one million tokens and resolving intricate queries with high accuracy, makes it particularly valuable for AI practitioners working with large-scale text processing and retrieval applications. |
| Benchmarking Chinese Knowledge Rectification in Large Language Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | huajunsir, Ningyu, cowTodd, JizhanFang, TianheLu | The authors introduce CKnowEdit, a novel dataset designed for evaluating and improving Chinese knowledge rectification in Large Language Models (LLMs). This dataset addresses a significant gap in the field, as prior knowledge editing research has primarily focused on English text and often fails to capture the nuances of the Chinese language. Evaluations of existing knowledge editing methods on CKnowEdit reveal limitations in their ability to accurately and consistently rectify Chinese knowledge, highlighting the need for more sophisticated techniques. This work has significant implications for practitioners, as it provides a valuable resource for developing and evaluating Chinese-specific knowledge editing tools, ultimately leading to more reliable and culturally-sensitive LLMs for Chinese language applications. |
| UniDet3D: Multi-dataset Indoor 3D Object Detection (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Anna Vorontsova, ktoshik, filapro, barracuda049, maksimko123 | This paper introduces UniDet3D, a novel 3D object detection model trained on a mixture of indoor datasets to address the limitations of existing models trained on individual, insufficiently diverse datasets. UniDet3D leverages a unified label space across datasets and employs a simple yet effective architecture based on a vanilla transformer encoder without positional encoding or cross-attention. The key innovation of UniDet3D lies in its ability to generalize to various indoor environments and achieve state-of-the-art results across six indoor benchmarks, outperforming existing methods in both accuracy and efficiency. This advancement is particularly relevant to practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, as UniDet3D offers a robust and customizable solution for indoor 3D object detection that can be readily adapted to various applications and computational constraints. |
| POINTS: Improving Your Vision-language Model with Affordable Strategies (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Xiao Zhou, Le Tian, Zeon-Zhuang, scyr, YuanLiuuuuuu | The authors introduce POINTS, a novel vision-language model that achieves state-of-the-art performance while utilizing a relatively small pre-training dataset and a publicly available visual instruction tuning dataset. Key innovations include the use of perplexity to filter the pre-training dataset, retaining only the top 20% of data with the lowest perplexity values, leading to significant performance improvements. Additionally, the authors propose "greedy model soup," a technique that averages the weights of models fine-tuned with varying dataset quantities and diversities, further enhancing performance. POINTS' effectiveness, coupled with its reliance on publicly available datasets, makes it a valuable tool for practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, seeking to develop and deploy robust vision-language models with constrained resources. The authors' meticulous ablation studies and detailed analysis of each component contribute to the model's transparency and ease of adoption. |
| Open Language Data Initiative: Advancing Low-Resource Machine Translation for Karakalpak (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | murodbek, mukhammadsaid | This research presents advancements in low-resource machine translation, specifically focusing on the Karakalpak language. The authors introduce a new FLORES+ devtest dataset translated into Karakalpak and develop parallel corpora for Uzbek-Karakalpak, Russian-Karakalpak, and English-Karakalpak language pairs. Utilizing these resources, they train and evaluate several neural machine translation models, demonstrating the effectiveness of incorporating data from related Turkic languages. The resulting models and datasets provide valuable resources for AI practitioners interested in developing NLP applications for Karakalpak and similar low-resource languages. |
| Paper Copilot: A Self-Evolving and Efficient LLM System for Personalized Academic Assistance (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Ge Liu, Pengrui Han, youjiaxuan, taofeng, cmulgy | This paper introduces Paper Copilot, a large language model (LLM) system designed to provide personalized and efficient academic research assistance. Paper Copilot employs thought retrieval, user profile generation, and high-performance optimization techniques to deliver its services. The system demonstrates a significant reduction in time required for information retrieval (69.92%) compared to traditional methods. Moreover, user feedback indicates a strong preference for the self-evolving capabilities of the system, highlighting its potential as a valuable tool for researchers. This is highly relevant to AI practitioners, particularly those involved in natural language processing, as it showcases the application of advanced techniques like thought retrieval and efficient deployment strategies for real-world use cases in information retrieval and knowledge management. |
| Insights from Benchmarking Frontier Language Models on Web App Code Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yi Cui | This research paper presents an analysis of 16 large language models (LLMs) evaluated on WebApp1K, a benchmark designed to assess code generation capabilities for web applications. The key finding suggests that despite exhibiting similar knowledge levels, the performance difference among models stems from the varying frequency of errors. Notably, the study reveals that generating correct code exhibits higher complexity compared to producing incorrect code. Moreover, prompt engineering, while effective in specific scenarios, shows limited impact in overall error reduction. These insights are crucial for practitioners, particularly AI engineers and data scientists, highlighting the importance of prioritizing model reliability and minimizing mistakes during the development of coding LLMs. |
| Evaluating Multiview Object Consistency in Humans and Image Models (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Kanwisher, tgoconnell, Emma02, stephaniefu, tzler | The research introduces MOCHI, a novel benchmark for evaluating the alignment between human perception and computer vision models on 3D shape inference tasks. Using a "same/different" object identification task with varying viewpoints, the study reveals that while humans significantly outperform models like DINOv2, CLIP, and MAE, a correlation exists between human and model performance. Further analysis of human reaction time and gaze patterns suggests that humans achieve superior performance by dedicating more processing time and employing flexible attention mechanisms, which current models lack. This benchmark provides crucial insights for AI practitioners, highlighting the need for models to incorporate mechanisms for dynamic processing and flexible attention to achieve more human-like 3D shape understanding. |
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| How Do Your Code LLMs Perform? Empowering Code Instruction Tuning with High-Quality Data (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | mdizhang, bitwjg, dongguanting, fudayuan, banksy235 | The authors propose XCoder, a family of large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned from LLaMA3 using a novel data selection strategy for code instruction tuning. Recognizing the limitations of existing code instruction datasets, often plagued by data leakage and inconsistent quality, the authors introduce a three-pronged data assessment approach. This approach prioritizes instruction complexity, response quality (evaluated through a unit test model), and instruction diversity to curate a high-quality training dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that XCoder surpasses or matches state-of-the-art open-source code LLMs on benchmarks like HumanEval and LiveCodeBench, even with significantly fewer training samples. This research offers AI practitioners valuable insights into constructing and leveraging high-quality code instruction datasets for enhanced code generation and understanding. |
| Configurable Foundation Models: Building LLMs from a Modular Perspective (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | fengyao1909, thuzhizhi, Raincleared, ZhengyanZhang, xcjthu | This research paper proposes the novel concept of "configurable foundation models," which are built upon modular components termed "bricks," offering a modular perspective on large language model (LLM) construction and deployment. The paper categorizes bricks as either "emergent," arising from the pre-training process, or "customized," manually designed for specific post-training tasks, and outlines four key brick-oriented operations: routing and retrieval, combination, updating, and growing. Empirical analysis on decoder-only models, Llama-3-8B-Instruct and Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, reveals sparse neuron activation, functionality specialization, and potential for modular partitioning. These findings hold significant implications for AI practitioners, suggesting that LLM efficiency and scalability can be improved by leveraging modularity through selective brick activation, facilitating continual learning, and enabling distributed computation. |
| Open-MAGVIT2: An Open-Source Project Toward Democratizing Auto-regressive Visual Generation (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yujiu Yang, yshan2u, yxgeee, shifengyuan, RobertLuo1 | This research paper introduces Open-MAGVIT2, an open-source family of auto-regressive image generation models. The authors replicate Google's MAGVIT-v2 tokenizer, achieving state-of-the-art reconstruction performance on ImageNet by utilizing a super-large codebook with lookup-free quantization. To address the challenges of auto-regressive prediction with such a large vocabulary, they propose "next sub-token prediction" with asymmetric token factorization, improving generation quality. Open-MAGVIT2 demonstrates superior performance in both visual reconstruction and class-conditional generation using a plain auto-regressive approach. The release of these models and code provides AI practitioners with a powerful toolset for advancing auto-regressive visual generation, particularly within unified multimodal frameworks. |
| Qihoo-T2X: An Efficiency-Focused Diffusion Transformer via Proxy Tokens for Text-to-Any-Task (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Yuhui Yin, Dawei Leng, Jiasong Feng, Jing Wang, AoMa | This research paper introduces PT-DiT, a novel Proxy Token Diffusion Transformer designed for computationally efficient text-to-image and text-to-video generation tasks. PT-DiT leverages the redundancy in visual information by utilizing a sparse proxy token attention mechanism, wherein a select set of representative tokens, sampled based on spatio-temporal priors, model global visual relationships. To further enhance texture detail, the model incorporates window attention and shift-window attention modules. Experimental results demonstrate that PT-DiT achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art methods while significantly reducing computational complexity and memory usage, making it particularly beneficial for high-resolution image and video generation. This efficiency gain makes PT-DiT and the Qihoo-T2X family of models valuable tools for AI practitioners, particularly AI engineers and data scientists working on resource-intensive generative tasks. |
| GST: Precise 3D Human Body from a Single Image with Gaussian Splatting Transformers (Read more on arXiv or HuggingFace) | Christian Rupprecht, Joao F. Henriques, Lorenza Prospero, ajhamdi | The paper introduces Gaussian Splatting Transformers (GST), a novel method for reconstructing 3D human models from monocular images using Gaussian Splatting representations. GST leverages a transformer architecture trained solely on multi-view supervision, eliminating the need for expensive 3D annotations or diffusion priors. Experiments demonstrate that GST achieves competitive performance on 3D human pose estimation and novel view synthesis tasks. This efficient and accurate approach holds significant potential for practitioners in various domains, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction, by enabling real-time 3D human modeling from readily available data sources. |
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| Attention Heads of Large Language Models: A Survey | Yezhaohui Wang, jimi888, Ki-Seki, saythe17, fan2goa1 | This paper surveys recent research on attention heads in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their role in reasoning processes. The authors propose a novel four-stage framework, inspired by human cognition, to categorize attention head functions: Knowledge Recalling, In-Context Identification, Latent Reasoning, and Expression Preparation. Furthermore, the paper summarizes experimental methodologies for investigating attention head mechanisms, categorized as Modeling-Free and Modeling-Required approaches. This survey provides AI practitioners with a valuable resource for understanding the inner workings of LLMs, potentially enabling them to design more interpretable and effective models, and develop novel techniques for LLM analysis and improvement. | Read more on HF |
| FuzzCoder: Byte-level Fuzzing Test via Large Language Model | Challenging666, Pony12, zhangysk, ngl567, WeiSumi | This paper introduces FUZZCODER, a novel fuzzing framework leveraging fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) for enhanced vulnerability detection in software. FUZZCODER employs a sequence-to-sequence paradigm, trained on a purpose-built "Fuzz-Instruct" dataset, to predict vulnerable byte locations and effective mutation strategies within input files. Evaluations on the custom Fuzz-Bench benchmark demonstrate FUZZCODER's superiority over traditional methods, achieving higher effective proportions of mutation (EPM) and uncovering a greater number of program crashes, indicative of potential vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the potential of LLMs in advancing fuzzing techniques, offering a valuable tool for AI engineers and data scientists involved in software security testing and vulnerability analysis. | Read more on HF |
| CDM: A Reliable Metric for Fair and Accurate Formula Recognition Evaluation | conghui, BoZhang, renqiux0302, ouyanglinke, wanderkid | This research paper proposes a novel evaluation metric called Character Detection Matching (CDM) for formula recognition tasks. Addressing the limitations of existing text-based metrics like BLEU, CDM evaluates formula recognition by comparing rendered images of predicted and ground-truth formulas, utilizing visual character matching. Experiments demonstrate that CDM offers a more accurate and fairer assessment of formula recognition models, particularly in scenarios with diverse formula representations. Notably, the study shows that by using CDM for training data selection, comparable model performance can be achieved using only a fraction (less than 20%) of the data. This finding offers valuable insights for practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, enabling more efficient model training and dataset construction in the field of formula recognition. | Read more on HF |
| mPLUG-DocOwl2: High-resolution Compressing for OCR-free Multi-page Document Understanding | Liang Zhang, Jingren, hzhwcmhf, xhyandwyy, AnwenHu | mPLUG-DocOwl2 is a novel Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) designed for efficient OCR-free multi-page document understanding. The authors introduce a High-resolution DocCompressor module that leverages cross-attention with global visual features to effectively compress high-resolution document images into a fixed number of tokens (324). This approach reduces computational overhead and inference time while maintaining comparable performance to state-of-the-art MLLMs on various document understanding benchmarks. DocOwl2's ability to process high-resolution images and efficiently extract textual information is beneficial for practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, developing applications for multi-page document analysis, question answering, and information retrieval. The reduction in computational resources required for processing high-resolution images makes DocOwl2 particularly relevant for real-world applications. | Read more on HF |
| Geometry Image Diffusion: Fast and Data-Efficient Text-to-3D with Image-Based Surface Representation | simondonn, CiaraRowles, SlavaElizarov | This research introduces Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel Text-to-3D framework that leverages geometry images as the 3D representation. By employing a Collaborative Control scheme with a pre-trained Text-to-Image diffusion model, GIMDiffusion generates 3D objects with high fidelity and diversity from text prompts, eliminating the need for complex 3D-aware architectures. Results demonstrate its capability to produce relightable 3D assets efficiently, comparable to existing Text-to-Image methods. GIMDiffusion offers a practical and efficient approach for AI practitioners, particularly AI Engineers and Data Scientists, working in 3D content creation, as it simplifies both model design and training while leveraging existing resources. Furthermore, the generated objects consist of semantically meaningful, separable parts, enhancing their usability and versatility for tasks such as editing and animation. | Read more on HF |
| WildVis: Open Source Visualizer for Million-Scale Chat Logs in the Wild | Xiang Ren, Wenting Zhao, yejinchoinka, jmhessel, yuntian-deng | WILDVIS is an open-source interactive tool designed for the exploration and analysis of large-scale conversational datasets, particularly interactions between users and chatbots. The tool employs both filter-based retrieval and embedding-based visualization techniques to enable efficient navigation and pattern discovery within millions of conversations. WILDVIS allows for the application of various filters, including keywords, user demographics, and conversation topics, to refine searches and highlight relevant conversations within an embedding space. For AI engineers and data scientists, WILDVIS offers a valuable resource for understanding user behavior, identifying potential misuse of chatbots, and uncovering insights into conversation dynamics within large datasets. The tool's ability to visualize topic distributions across datasets can be particularly beneficial for researchers studying trends in user-chatbot interactions. | Read more on HF |
| From MOOC to MAIC: Reshaping Online Teaching and Learning through LLM-driven Agents | juanli, Lin-23457, zhanxinhao, tsq2000, JovanYu | This paper introduces MAIC (Massive AI-empowered Course), a novel online education paradigm leveraging LLM-driven multi-agent systems to enhance the scalability and adaptivity of online learning. MAIC employs AI agents for course preparation, instruction delivery, and student interaction, aiming to provide personalized learning experiences. Preliminary experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of MAIC in enhancing script generation quality, promoting student engagement, and improving learning outcomes. These findings hold significant implications for AI practitioners, particularly in the domain of educational technology, by showcasing the potential of LLMs and multi-agent systems in revolutionizing online education. | Read more on HF |
| Guide-and-Rescale: Self-Guidance Mechanism for Effective Tuning-Free Real Image Editing | Dmitry Vetrov, Madina Khalmatova, ai-alanov, sashapff, macderru | The paper, "Guide-and-Rescale: Self-Guidance Mechanism for Effective Tuning-Free Real Image Editing", introduces a novel image editing method called Guide-and-Rescale. This method leverages a self-guidance technique within a diffusion model framework to balance high-quality editing with the preservation of the original image structure. The authors achieve this by introducing energy functions, referred to as "guiders," designed to maintain both global layout and local visual characteristics during the editing process. The paper presents a noise rescaling mechanism, ensuring consistent behavior across a diverse range of images, and demonstrates its effectiveness through both qualitative and quantitative analysis on various editing tasks, such as changing object appearance, style transfer, and image manipulation. Practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, can utilize this method for real-time, high-fidelity image editing applications without the need for extensive model fine-tuning or computationally expensive inversion processes. | Read more on HF |
| FrozenSeg: Harmonizing Frozen Foundation Models for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation | Hongxun Yao, Xi Chen, Xiatian-Zhu, ShengJin, happy0612 | This paper introduces FrozenSeg, a novel open-vocabulary segmentation method that addresses the limitation of existing methods in generating accurate mask proposals for unseen categories. FrozenSeg leverages the strengths of frozen foundation models, specifically CLIP for semantic understanding and SAM for spatial reasoning, via two novel modules: Query Injector and Feature Injector. Experiments demonstrate FrozenSeg's state-of-the-art performance in open-vocabulary semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation across multiple datasets, with significant improvements over baselines. This method holds promise for AI practitioners seeking to develop segmentation models capable of generalizing to unseen categories and scenarios without extensive retraining. | Read more on HF |
| Report Cards: Qualitative Evaluation of Language Models Using Natural Language Summaries | Jimmy Ba, Keiran Paster, Fuyang Cui, spitis, loveblairsky | This paper introduces Report Cards, a novel approach for qualitative assessment of Large Language Models (LLMs), addressing the limitations of purely quantitative benchmarks. Report Cards provide human-interpretable natural language summaries of an LLM's capabilities across specific skills or topics, offering nuanced insights into model behavior. The authors propose an iterative method, PRESS, for generating these report cards and introduce metrics for evaluating their specificity, faithfulness, and interpretability. Experimental results demonstrate that Report Cards can effectively differentiate between models, accurately reflect their capabilities, and provide valuable insights for practitioners like AI engineers and data scientists, who can leverage these summaries for understanding model strengths and weaknesses. This work contributes a valuable tool for holistic and interpretable evaluation of LLMs, moving beyond simplistic quantitative metrics. | Read more on HF |
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| LongLLaVA: Scaling Multi-modal LLMs to 1000 Images Efficiently via Hybrid Architecture | Benyou Wang, Chen Zhang, Shunian Chen, Xidong Wang, songdj | The paper introduces LongLLaVA, a novel hybrid multi-modal large language model (MLLM) designed for efficient long-context understanding. By integrating Mamba and Transformer blocks, LongLLaVA effectively handles temporal and spatial dependencies among multiple images, achieving competitive performance on benchmarks like MileBench and Video-MME. Notably, LongLLaVA requires significantly fewer FLOPs compared to other models while demonstrating strong in-context learning capabilities. This efficiency and performance make LongLLaVA a valuable tool for AI practitioners, particularly in applications involving video understanding, high-resolution image processing, and multi-modal agents. | Read more on HF |
| Loopy: Taming Audio-Driven Portrait Avatar with Long-Term Motion Dependency | Gaojie Lin, Jiaqi Yang, Chao Liang, tianyumyum, janphu | This paper introduces LOOPY, an end-to-end audio-driven portrait video generation framework that generates realistic talking head videos solely from audio input, eliminating the reliance on spatial motion templates used in previous methods. LOOPY leverages inter- and intra-clip temporal modules to model long-term motion dependencies and an audio-to-motion latents module for effective audio-portrait motion correlation. Experiments on diverse datasets, including CelebV-HQ and RAVDESS, demonstrate LOOPY's superior performance in generating temporally stable, expressive, and high-quality talking head videos, surpassing existing state-of-the-art methods. Practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, can utilize LOOPY to develop robust and realistic talking head generation systems for various applications, such as virtual assistants, video conferencing, and entertainment. The removal of spatial constraints and the ability to learn natural motion patterns from audio make LOOPY a significant advancement in audio-driven video synthesis. | Read more on HF |
| LongCite: Enabling LLMs to Generate Fine-grained Citations in Long-context QA | LZDQ, Broccolito, davidlvxin, bys0318, NeoZ123 | This research paper introduces LongCite, a system designed to enhance the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) by enabling them to provide fine-grained citations within their long-form answers. The authors identify the limitations of current LLMs in providing adequate citations for long-context question answering (LQAC) and propose a novel pipeline called CoF (Coarse to Fine) to automatically construct a large-scale LQAC dataset, LongCite-45k. By fine-tuning existing open-source long-context models on this dataset, they demonstrate significant improvements in citation quality, even surpassing proprietary models like GPT-40. This advancement holds practical significance for AI practitioners, particularly AI engineers and data scientists, by equipping LLMs with enhanced transparency and verifiability, making them more reliable for various applications. | Read more on HF |
| MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark | btyu, jamessyx, yuanshengni, aaabiao, yuexiang96 | The research paper introduces MMMU-Pro, a novel benchmark designed to rigorously evaluate the multimodal reasoning capabilities of large language models. MMMU-Pro addresses limitations in existing benchmarks by incorporating three key enhancements: filtering out questions solvable by text-only models, augmenting candidate options to mitigate guessing, and introducing a vision-only input setting to assess genuine multimodal understanding. Experimental results demonstrate significant performance drops across a variety of state-of-the-art multimodal models, indicating that MMMU-Pro poses a more realistic challenge. This benchmark provides AI practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, with a valuable tool for assessing and improving the robustness and reliability of multimodal systems, particularly in real-world scenarios where text and images are intertwined. | Read more on HF |
| Arctic-SnowCoder: Demystifying High-Quality Data in Code Pretraining | rajhans-snowflake, stovecat, yuxiang630 | Arctic-SnowCoder-1.3B is a new, high-performing code language model trained on 555B tokens utilizing a novel three-step methodology of progressively refined data quality. This model outperforms StarCoderBase-3B on all benchmarks despite being trained with significantly less data and achieves state-of-the-art results on BigCodeBench compared to similarly sized models. The authors demonstrate that aligning training data distribution with downstream tasks is crucial for effective code pretraining and significantly enhances model performance. These findings and the model itself will be of significant interest to practitioners, especially AI engineers who develop code generation and program synthesis applications. | Read more on HF |
| Political DEBATE: Efficient Zero-shot and Few-shot Classifiers for Political Text | Rachel X. Peng, Ryan Yank Wang, Michael Burnham, kaylakahn | This paper introduces Political DEBATE, a pair of open-source language models specifically designed for efficient zero-shot and few-shot classification of political text. Trained on the novel PolNLI dataset, comprising over 200,000 political documents and 852 unique hypotheses, the models exhibit superior performance compared to existing open-source alternatives across tasks such as stance detection, topic classification, hate-speech identification, and event extraction. The authors demonstrate that with minimal few-shot training (10-25 documents), Political DEBATE achieves comparable or even better accuracy than supervised classifiers and resource-intensive generative LLMs. The availability of these efficient and open-source models presents a valuable resource for practitioners in political science and related fields, enabling accessible and reproducible text analysis. | Read more on HF |
| FastVoiceGrad: One-step Diffusion-Based Voice Conversion with Adversarial Conditional Diffusion Distillation | Yuto Kondo, Hirokazu Kameoka, Takuhiro Kaneko, ououo | This research introduces FastVoiceGrad, a novel one-step diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model that addresses the slow inference limitation of multi-step diffusion-based VC methods. FastVoiceGrad leverages adversarial conditional diffusion distillation (ACDD), which distills knowledge from a pretrained multi-step teacher diffusion model into a one-step student model using adversarial loss and score distillation loss. Experimental results demonstrate that FastVoiceGrad achieves comparable performance to multi-step models while significantly reducing computational cost, achieving a real-time factor of 0.060 for mel-spectrogram conversion. This development provides AI practitioners, particularly those working on VC applications, a faster and computationally efficient alternative for real-time and resource-constrained scenarios. | Read more on HF |
| Affordance-based Robot Manipulation with Flow Matching | Michael Gienger, Fanzhri | This research paper introduces a novel framework for robot manipulation that leverages prompt tuning and flow matching. The authors propose a parameter-efficient prompt tuning method to adapt pre-trained vision models for affordance learning conditioned on language instructions. They then introduce a flow matching policy, a generative approach that learns to transform random waypoints into desired robot trajectories guided by visual affordances. Experimental results on a constructed real-world dataset of Activities of Daily Living demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves competitive performance in both affordance learning and trajectory generation compared to existing methods. This work presents a promising direction for AI practitioners working on robot manipulation, particularly in scenarios where data efficiency and generalization to multi-task settings are crucial. The integration of prompt tuning facilitates efficient adaptation of large pre-trained models, while the flow matching policy offers a stable and effective approach for generating robot trajectories from visual affordances. | Read more on HF |
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| Kvasir-VQA: A Text-Image Pair GI Tract Dataset | Andrea Storås, vlbthambawita, stevenah, cise-midoglu, SushantGautam | The paper introduces Kvasir-VQA, an extended dataset derived from HyperKvasir and Kvasir-Instrument datasets, augmented with question-and-answer annotations to facilitate advanced machine learning tasks in GI diagnostics. The dataset comprises 6,500 annotated images spanning various GI tract conditions and surgical instruments, and it supports multiple question types including yes/no, choice, location, and numerical count. Preliminary experiments demonstrate the dataset's effectiveness in training models for image captioning, VQA, and synthetic image generation. The dataset is designed to bridge the gap between medical image analysis and practical diagnostic tools, ultimately aiming to improve patient outcomes and diagnostic precision. This dataset can be of immense value to AI engineers and data scientists looking to develop robust and accurate AI models for medical image analysis and diagnostics in the GI tract. | Read more on HF |
| OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models | sewon, jacobmorrison, dirkgr, soldni, Muennighoff | The paper introduces OLMOE, a fully open-source, state-of-the-art Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. This model outperforms other available models with similar active parameters, even surpassing larger models like Llama2-13B-Chat and DeepSeekMoE-16B. The authors present a comprehensive analysis of MoE training and routing, demonstrating how it achieves high specialization and outperforms dense language models on various benchmarks. All aspects of OLMOE are open-sourced, including model weights, training data, code, and logs. This work is highly relevant to practitioners by providing a cost-effective, open-source, high-performing language model for research and development. Moreover, the detailed analysis of MoE design choices provides valuable insights for AI engineers and data scientists working with MoE models. | Read more on HF |
| LongRecipe: Recipe for Efficient Long Context Generalization in Large Languge Models | Laziobird, anhtuanluu36, sheryc, yuliang03181, zhiyuanhucs | This research paper proposes LongRecipe, an efficient training strategy for extending the context window of Large Language Models (LLMs). LongRecipe leverages a novel approach called Impactful Token Analysis to identify key tokens that significantly influence long-text training, enabling the model to learn from shorter text segments while maintaining training efficiency. It also introduces a Position Index Transformation technique to simulate long sequences without needing actual long texts. LongRecipe achieves significant improvements in long-context generalization, demonstrating that it can effectively utilize long sequences while requiring only 30% of the target context window size and reducing computational training resources by over 85% compared to full-sequence training. Moreover, LongRecipe preserves the original LLM's capabilities in general tasks, making it a balanced approach for enhancing both long-range dependency understanding and foundational model performance. This research contributes to the field of AI by offering practitioners a more efficient and effective method for extending the context window of LLMs, enabling them to handle more complex and challenging tasks that require long-context understanding. | Read more on HF |
| FLUX that Plays Music | huangjunshi, Changqian, MichaelFan, onion | This paper proposes FluxMusic, an extension of diffusion-based rectified flow Transformers for text-to-music generation. It leverages a latent VAE space of mel-spectrograms, incorporating double and single stream blocks to model text and music. The authors demonstrate that FluxMusic outperforms existing methods across multiple metrics, including FAD, IS, and CLAP, demonstrating its scalability and effectiveness. Furthermore, the authors evaluate the impact of model size, rectified flow training, and other hyperparameters on the generative performance. FluxMusic provides a promising avenue for researchers and practitioners in text-to-music generation, offering improved accuracy and scalability compared to previous approaches. | Read more on HF |
| DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos | vinthony, walkingshadow, Xiaoyu521, xiangjun0211, wbhu-tc | DepthCrafter, a novel video-depth estimation method, generates temporally consistent long depth sequences for open-world videos using video diffusion models. Unlike previous approaches, it does not require additional information, such as camera poses or optical flow. DepthCrafter achieves this by training a video-to-depth model from a pre-trained image-to-video diffusion model through a three-stage training strategy. The method is evaluated on multiple datasets, outperforming existing approaches in terms of both quantitative and qualitative metrics, demonstrating its effectiveness in generating high-quality depth sequences. Practitioners, such as AI engineers and data scientists, can leverage DepthCrafter for various downstream applications, including depth-based visual effects and conditional video generation. | Read more on HF |
| VideoLLaMB: Long-context Video Understanding with Recurrent Memory Bridges | Yang Liu, zlzheng, cihangxie, ColorfulAI | VideoLLaMB is a new framework that utilizes recurrent memory tokens within bridge layers to encode the entirety of a video sequence, preserving semantic continuity and improving performance across various tasks. The authors introduce a SceneTilling algorithm, which segments videos into independent semantic units. This approach achieves state-of-the-art results across various video QA benchmarks, particularly on longer videos (up to 8x longer) and in the Needle in a Video Haystack (NIAVH) benchmark. VideoLLaMB also enables training-free streaming video captioning and high performance on a single GPU, setting a new foundation for long-form video understanding models. These improvements are particularly relevant to AI practitioners, as they offer a more efficient and effective way to analyze and understand long videos. | Read more on HF |
| Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization | Lars L. Ankile, Allen Z. Ren, daihongkai, pulkitag, jlidard | The research paper "Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization" explores a novel algorithm for fine-tuning diffusion-based policies in robot learning tasks using policy gradient methods. The authors demonstrate that their algorithm, DPPO, outperforms existing methods for diffusion-based policy fine-tuning and achieves strong results in both simulation and real-world robot manipulation tasks. The paper also provides insights into the mechanisms behind DPPO's success, highlighting its ability to induce structured exploration, maintain training stability, and enhance policy robustness. DPPO could be relevant to practitioners developing robotic systems by providing a robust and efficient method for fine-tuning diffusion-based policies trained on expert demonstrations. | Read more on HF |
| Compositional 3D-aware Video Generation with LLM Director | Anni Tang, bianjiang, leo-guo, deeptimhe, ingzzzz | The paper proposes a novel method for text-to-video generation by explicitly composing concepts in 3D space. The method leverages LLMs to decompose a complex textual prompt into sub-prompts, each describing a specific concept. It then generates 3D representations for each concept using pre-trained expert models. These representations are then composed using priors from multi-modal LLMs and 2D diffusion models. The key results of this method include the generation of high-fidelity videos with diverse motions and the ability to control individual concepts. This research could be relevant to AI engineers and data scientists working on text-to-video generation or who are interested in applying LLMs to 3D graphics or video generation. | Read more on HF |
| LinFusion: 1 GPU, 1 Minute, 16K Image | Xinchao Wang, ZhenXiong, whyu, Huage001 | This research paper presents LinFusion, a novel diffusion model for text-to-image generation that achieves linear time and memory complexity with respect to the number of spatial tokens. The authors achieve this by introducing a generalized linear attention mechanism that serves as a low-rank approximation of popular linear token mixers. Extensive experiments on Stable Diffusion models demonstrate that LinFusion achieves performance on par with or superior to the original SD after only modest training, while significantly reducing training time and memory complexity. LinFusion is highly compatible with pre-trained SD components and can generate high-resolution images like 16K resolution. AI practitioners can leverage this novel model to generate high-resolution images with significantly reduced computational resources. | Read more on HF |
| ContextCite: Attributing Model Generation to Context | Aleksander Madry, krisgrg, harshay, bencw | This research paper introduces the novel task of context attribution, aiming to identify the specific parts of a context responsible for a language model's generated statement. The paper proposes a scalable and efficient method called CONTEXTCITE, which uses a linear surrogate model to estimate the effect of ablating different parts of the context. The results demonstrate that CONTEXTCITE consistently outperforms existing baselines in identifying relevant sources, particularly for complex tasks like multi-hop question answering and summarization. CONTEXTCITE can be applied by practitioners to verify generated statements, improve response quality by pruning irrelevant context, and detect poisoning attacks in language models. | Read more on HF |
| OD-VAE: An Omni-dimensional Video Compressor for Improving Latent Video Diffusion Model | Qian Wang, Bin Zhu, Bin Lin, Zongjian Li, Liuhan Chen | This research proposes an omni-dimensional video compressor (OD-VAE) to improve the efficiency of latent video diffusion models (LVDMs). Unlike conventional VAEs, OD-VAE compresses videos temporally and spatially, leading to more concise latent representations and reduced computational requirements for LVDMs. The researchers demonstrate that OD-VAE can achieve high video reconstruction accuracy while maintaining high compression speed, improving the training efficiency of LVDMs. The results also suggest that OD-VAE can be used to generate longer videos with limited GPU memory, making it a valuable tool for practitioners working with LVDMs. The paper's findings have implications for AI engineers and data scientists developing video generation models, offering a way to improve model efficiency and reduce computational costs. | Read more on HF |
| GenAgent: Build Collaborative AI Systems with Automated Workflow Generation -- Case Studies on ComfyUI | Lei Bai, Wanli Ouyang, Di Huang, Xiangyuan Xue, whlzy | This research presents GenAgent, a novel LLM-based framework for automating the creation of complex workflows used in collaborative AI systems. The framework utilizes LLMs to represent workflows as code, enabling greater flexibility and scalability compared to monolithic AI models. GenAgent is evaluated on the ComfyUI platform and demonstrates superior performance to baseline methods in generating both run-level and task-level workflows. The key takeaway for practitioners is that GenAgent's ability to automate workflow generation can significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of collaborative AI system development. The framework can be applied to a variety of AI systems and platforms, making it a valuable tool for AI engineers and data scientists. | Read more on HF |
| Follow-Your-Canvas: Higher-Resolution Video Outpainting with Extensive Content Generation | Junkun Yuan, Hongfa Wang, Yue Ma, Qihua Chen, cqf | This research paper presents "Follow-Your-Canvas", a new method for higher-resolution video outpainting with extensive content generation. The proposed method addresses the limitations of existing video outpainting methods by using a diffusion-based model and dividing the task across spatial windows. By incorporating relative region embedding and a layout encoder, the authors demonstrate that Follow-Your-Canvas can generate high-quality results with improved spatial-temporal consistency. The model significantly outperforms existing methods in both low-resolution and high-resolution scenarios. AI engineers can use this method for a wide range of applications such as improving user experience by generating videos with larger aspect ratios or enhancing the resolution of existing videos. | Read more on HF |
| Density Adaptive Attention-based Speech Network: Enhancing Feature Understanding for Mental Health Disorders | Adrian Kieback, Georgios Ioannides, jsbai-aaron, amanchadha | This research introduces DAAMAudioCNNLSTM and DAAMAudioTransformer, two parameter-efficient and explainable models for audio feature extraction and depression detection. These models leverage the multi-head Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism (DAAM) to dynamically focus on informative speech segments, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the DAIC-WOZ dataset (F1 macro scores of 0.702 and 0.72, respectively). DAAM offers significant explainability benefits by highlighting which features were most informative for diagnosis, making it more transparent and trustworthy. This work could be valuable for practitioners by providing tools for developing more reliable, clinically-useful depression detection models that leverage only audio signals, without relying on supplementary information. | Read more on HF |
| Know When to Fuse: Investigating Non-English Hybrid Retrieval in the Legal Domain | Gerasimos Spanakis, Gijs van Dijck, antoinelouis | This paper investigates the performance of hybrid retrieval methods in the legal domain, specifically in the French language. The authors find that fusing domain-general retrieval models consistently improves performance in zero-shot settings, but in-domain training diminishes the benefits of fusion, suggesting a trade-off between computational resources and accuracy. They also propose a percentile-based score normalization method to address misaligned score distributions across different models, which can improve the effectiveness of fusion. The study highlights the importance of carefully considering the choice of retrieval models and fusion techniques in specialized domains, and provides insights that could be valuable for practitioners working on information retrieval in non-English legal domains. | Read more on HF |
| The MERIT Dataset: Modelling and Efficiently Rendering Interpretable Transcripts | J. Boal, A. Sanchez-Cuadrado, alvlopez, de-Rodrigo | This research introduces the MERIT Dataset, a multimodal (text, image, and layout) dataset of school reports designed for training visually-rich document understanding (VrDU) models. The dataset, comprising over 400 labels and 33k samples, includes realistic digital and photorealistic documents with controlled bias features (such as gender and name origin), enabling the study of bias in language models. The dataset is publicly available and includes a comprehensive generation pipeline for replication. The authors conduct experiments using state-of-the-art LayoutLM models, demonstrating the dataset's suitability for training and evaluating performance, while showcasing the challenges associated with real-world scenarios. This dataset offers a valuable tool for practitioners in AI engineering and data science, providing a benchmark for developing and evaluating models, especially in the context of bias detection and understanding. | Read more on HF |
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| VisionTS: Visual Masked Autoencoders Are Free-Lunch Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters | Xiaoyun Joy Wang, Zhuo Li, twinsken, HALF111, chenmouxiang | This paper introduces VisionTS, a novel zero-shot time series forecasting model that leverages the intrinsic similarities between images and time series. The authors reformulate the forecasting task as an image reconstruction problem, and utilize a pre-trained visual masked autoencoder (MAE) to forecast future time series values without any specific training on time series data. VisionTS achieves comparable or even superior performance to existing text-based and time-series based foundation models in the zero-shot setting, suggesting that visual models could be a free lunch for time series forecasting. This work provides a novel approach for practitioners to build time series forecasting foundation models, particularly in situations where data scarcity or heterogeneity is a challenge. | Read more on HF |
| Mini-Omni: Language Models Can Hear, Talk While Thinking in Streaming | Zhifei Xie, gpt-omni | The paper proposes Mini-Omni, an open-source, end-to-end multi-modal large language model (LLM) with real-time speech interaction capabilities. Mini-Omni enables direct audio reasoning via text-instructed speech generation, which utilizes a novel parallel decoding strategy to boost inference speed. The authors introduce the "Any Model Can Talk" framework, which helps to transfer text capabilities of pre-trained models to speech output with minimal degradation, making it valuable for practitioners in the field. They also introduce the VoiceAssistant-400K dataset, specifically designed for speech-output models. Mini-Omni is a significant advancement in human-computer interaction, offering valuable potential for future research. | Read more on HF |
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| SciLitLLM: How to Adapt LLMs for Scientific Literature Understanding | xumingjun, caixc97, yrshi, Jesse-zjx, Sihangli | This research paper presents SciLitLLM, a specialized large language model (LLM) designed for scientific literature understanding. The model utilizes a hybrid training strategy that combines continual pre-training (CPT) on high-quality scientific corpora and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with diverse scientific instructions. To address the challenges of constructing high-quality CPT corpora and generating diverse SFT instructions, the authors propose a meticulous pipeline that includes PDF text extraction, content error correction, and quality filtering for CPT. For SFT, they introduce a novel LLM-based instruction synthesis method to generate diverse instructions. SciLitLLM demonstrates promising performance on scientific literature understanding benchmarks, outperforming existing LLMs across various tasks, especially in domains like fundamental science and organic materials. These findings are particularly relevant to AI engineers and data scientists involved in developing LLMs for specialized domains, highlighting the potential of combining CPT and SFT for knowledge injection and instruction-following enhancements. | Read more on HF |
| CoRe: Context-Regularized Text Embedding Learning for Text-to-Image Personalization | Jian Yin, BlurBlur, Zhangjunyi, darkcser, FeizeWu | The research paper, CoRe: Context-Regularized Text Embedding Learning for Text-to-Image Personalization, tackles the challenge of balancing identity preservation and text alignment in text-to-image personalization. It introduces a novel method, Context Regularization (CoRe), which improves text embedding learning by regularizing the context tokens surrounding the new concept. CoRe enhances the compatibility of the new concept's text embedding and facilitates a more precise semantic understanding of the prompt. The authors demonstrate that CoRe outperforms several baselines in both identity preservation and text alignment, especially for prompts requiring high visual variability. This research provides valuable insights for practitioners in the field of text-to-image personalization, enabling the generation of high-quality, text-aligned images with improved identity preservation. | Read more on HF |
| The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge: A Retrospective | dgromero, jungjee, arsha1, joonson, JaesungHuh | The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) is a series of annual challenges and workshops that ran from 2019 to 2023. This paper is a retrospective analysis of the VoxSRC challenge, covering the challenges’ goals, dataset creation, evaluation metrics, and the progression of research techniques. Key results highlight that the state-of-the-art has steadily improved over the years, with the use of self-supervised pretrained models significantly advancing performance. The paper also provides valuable insights and recommendations for future challenge organizers, such as maintaining a consistent test set, incorporating individual and ensemble model performance, and including a more diverse dataset. Practitioners, particularly those involved in speaker recognition and diarization, will find this retrospective analysis a valuable resource for understanding the evolution of research techniques and identifying future directions in the field. | Read more on HF |
| CURLoRA: Stable LLM Continual Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation | mnoorfawi | The paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning LLMs that leverages CUR matrix decomposition to mitigate catastrophic forgetting and improve computational efficiency. By leveraging inverted probabilities in CUR decomposition, the method effectively limits the growth of trainable parameters, resulting in improved stability and performance across tasks while significantly reducing the number of trainable parameters. This method is particularly useful in continual learning scenarios, where LLMs are trained on a sequence of tasks and need to preserve knowledge from previous tasks. The paper shows that CURLoRA outperforms standard LoRA in mitigating catastrophic forgetting, and demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach across a range of tasks and datasets. This research offers practical solutions for AI engineers and data scientists who are seeking to develop and deploy LLMs in real-world settings, where catastrophic forgetting poses a significant challenge. | Read more on HF |
| Jina-ColBERT-v2: A General-Purpose Multilingual Late Interaction Retriever | hanxiao, makram93, jupyterjazz, michael-guenther, bwang0911 | The paper introduces Jina-ColBERT-v2, a novel multilingual dense retriever based on the ColBERT architecture. It presents various improvements to the model architecture and training pipeline, including the adoption of a modified XLM-ROBERTa encoder, pair training with weakly supervised datasets, and triplet training with high-quality multilingual data. Jina-ColBERT-v2 significantly improves performance across a range of English and multilingual retrieval tasks while reducing storage requirements by up to 50%. The authors also highlight the model's robust performance in low-resource languages, making it suitable for practitioners working on multilingual information retrieval tasks. | Read more on HF |
| SurveySum: A Dataset for Summarizing Multiple Scientific Articles into a Survey Section | Rodrigo Nogueira, Thales Sales Almeida, thiagolaitz, gubartz, carisio | The research paper introduces a novel dataset called "SurveySum" for summarizing multiple scientific articles into a section of a survey. The authors propose two pipelines for summarizing scientific articles into a survey section, which are evaluated using various metrics. The results of the evaluation highlight the importance of high-quality retrieval stages and the impact of different model configurations on the quality of generated summaries. The paper addresses the lack of domain-specific datasets for summarization, which is crucial for building accurate and robust summarization models. This work provides a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of natural language processing, particularly those involved in the development and evaluation of summarization models. | Read more on HF |
| Automatic Differential Diagnosis using Transformer-Based Multi-Label Sequence Classification | Lubaba Binte Saber, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Khan, AdnanSadi | This research paper explores the use of transformer-based multi-label sequence classification for automated differential diagnosis. The authors propose a method to process tabular patient data into text reports and introduce two data modification modules to improve the robustness of the model. Their experiments using four transformer models demonstrate promising results with over 97% F1 scores and highlight the model's capability to generalize to challenging scenarios. The results suggest that this approach could be a valuable tool for healthcare professionals seeking to identify and prioritize potential diagnoses for patients, especially when dealing with ambiguous symptoms. This research emphasizes the potential of AI-driven tools to assist with complex medical tasks, particularly for practitioners who may need assistance in identifying a wider range of possible diagnoses. | Read more on HF |
| UrBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Multi-View Urban Scenarios | Tianyi Bai, Junyan Ye, Dairong Chen, Haote Yang, Baichuan Zhou | This research paper introduces UrBench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in complex, multi-view urban scenarios. The benchmark includes 11.6K questions covering 14 distinct tasks across four evaluation dimensions, namely Geo-Localization, Scene Reasoning, Scene Understanding, and Object Understanding. UrBench utilizes a novel cross-view detection-matching algorithm to create high-quality annotations and question generation pipeline that incorporates LMM-based, rule-based, and human-based methods. The authors evaluate 21 LMMs on UrBench and find that current models struggle with multi-view understanding, inconsistent behavior across different views, and fall behind human performance in most tasks, highlighting the significant room for improvement in current models' abilities for human-centric AI applications in urban settings. The paper's findings are relevant to AI practitioners working on LMM development, as it provides valuable insights into the limitations and potential of current models, and serves as a benchmark for future research. | Read more on HF |
| InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages | EricPeter, Jenalea, JessicaOjo, bonadossou, Atnafu | The research paper introduces InkubaLM, a 0.4-billion parameter, multilingual language model designed specifically for low-resource African languages. The model demonstrably outperforms larger language models on specific tasks, notably sentiment analysis in Swahili. The authors release the model and datasets to encourage further research and development in the field. By bridging the language gap and offering an accessible tool, the paper highlights the potential for InkubaLM to be used by AI engineers and data scientists in tasks requiring local language understanding, such as machine translation and sentiment analysis. | Read more on HF |
| Large-Scale Multi-omic Biosequence Transformers for Modeling Peptide-Nucleotide Interactions | Eric Oermann, Shivanand P. Lad, Robert J. Steele, Beakal, WeiHua | The authors of this paper, Eric Oermann, Shivanand P. Lad, Robert J. Steele, and Beakal, propose a new method for learning joint representations of protein and nucleotide sequences using a multi-omic transformer architecture. They demonstrate that their model, OmniBioTE, achieves state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks related to protein-nucleotide interactions, such as predicting binding affinity and the effects of mutations. They also show that the model can be effectively fine-tuned for single-omics tasks, highlighting its potential for a wider range of applications. This research is relevant to AI engineers, data scientists, and bioinformaticians working in the field of biosequence analysis as it provides a powerful tool for understanding and modeling complex interactions between proteins and nucleic acids. | Read more on HF |
| VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images | abhilashneog, harishB97, ksmehrab, arkadaw9, sammarfy | This paper introduces VLM4Bio, a new benchmark dataset that evaluates the zero-shot performance of vision-language models (VLMs) for the task of trait discovery from biological images. VLM4Bio includes ≈469K question-answer pairs based on 30k images of three taxonomic groups: fishes, birds, and butterflies. The paper finds that while VLMs perform well on some tasks (e.g., trait identification), they struggle with other tasks (e.g., counting traits, localizing traits), highlighting the need for further research in this area. The findings of this paper will be useful for AI engineers and data scientists who are developing VLMs for organismal biology applications. The dataset can be used to train and evaluate VLMs for a variety of tasks, including species classification, trait identification, and trait grounding. It also provides insights into the limitations of current VLMs, which can help to guide future research efforts. | Read more on HF |
| ClimDetect: A Benchmark Dataset for Climate Change Detection and Attribution | vasudevlal, matthewlyleolson, musashihinck, anahita-b, sungduk | The paper introduces ClimDetect, a benchmark dataset for climate change detection and attribution (D&A) that leverages daily snapshots of climate model simulations for training and evaluating machine learning (ML) models. The dataset standardizes input and target variables, promoting consistency and comparability across studies. The authors demonstrate the applicability of Vision Transformers (ViTs) for climate fingerprinting, a novel approach in this domain. ClimDetect is publicly accessible and provides a benchmark for advancing climate science by improving model evaluations. Practitioners, such as AI Engineers and Data Scientists working in climate modeling, can use ClimDetect to enhance their D&A research efforts and develop robust ML models for understanding and mitigating climate change. | Read more on HF |
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| Law of Vision Representation in MLLMs | chenfengx, WaterInSea, Ye27, Borise, shijiay | The research paper titled "Law of Vision Representation in MLLMs" proposes a novel theory that links the performance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to the combination of cross-modal alignment and correspondence in vision representation. The authors establish a linear correlation between a proposed alignment and correspondence score (AC score) and the MLLM's performance across eight benchmarks. Through this correlation, they propose an "AC policy" to efficiently determine the optimal vision representation, leading to a 99.7% reduction in computational cost compared to traditional methods. The findings are significant for practitioners in AI, particularly data scientists and AI engineers, as they provide an efficient method for selecting the optimal vision representation for MLLMs, thereby streamlining the development process and reducing computational resources. | Read more on HF |
| CogVLM2: Visual Language Models for Image and Video Understanding | ShiyuHuang, LiquidAmmonia, qingsonglv, iyuge2, wenyi | The paper introduces CogVLM2, a new family of visual language models (VLMs) for image and video understanding. The authors introduce an improved training recipe based on the visual expert architecture and a high-resolution cross-module, achieving state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks. CogVLM2 family incorporates temporal grounding, a technique for automatically generating video annotations with timestamps, allowing for more precise and detailed understanding of video content. CogVLM2 family represents a significant advancement in visual and language modalities, offering powerful tools for both research and practical applications such as AI engineers, data scientists and researchers. | Read more on HF |
| WavTokenizer: an Efficient Acoustic Discrete Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling | jlking, MingHuiFang, Exgc, ziyue, novateur | The research paper "WavTokenizer: an Efficient Acoustic Discrete Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling" introduces a novel codec model designed to effectively compress audio signals into a low-dimensional discrete representation. Notably, WavTokenizer achieves a significantly compressed representation of one-second audio with only 75 tokens while maintaining superior subjective reconstruction quality compared to existing acoustic codec models. Moreover, WavTokenizer surpasses state-of-the-art performance in semantic tasks on the ARCH benchmark, highlighting its capability to capture richer semantic information. This work opens a new avenue for effectively compressing audio into a discrete representation, thereby enabling the use of audio data with larger language models. Practitioners, including AI engineers and data scientists, may leverage the presented approach to compress audio data for various applications, such as text-to-speech synthesis, audio generation, and cross-modal retrieval. | Read more on HF |
| ReconX: Reconstruct Any Scene from Sparse Views with Video Diffusion Model | duanyueqi, yejunliang23, yikaiw, wenqsun, Liuff23 | This research paper proposes a novel 3D scene reconstruction paradigm called ReconX that utilizes the generative power of video diffusion models to generate more observations from limited sparse views. This allows for higher quality reconstructions, especially in areas not seen in the original input. ReconX utilizes 3D structure guidance and a confidence-aware optimization scheme within the 3D Gaussian Splatting framework to ensure 3D consistency and minimize visual artifacts. Experimental results show that ReconX outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of both quality and generalizability. This work is particularly relevant for practitioners working in computer vision, especially those who deal with sparse-view 3D reconstruction tasks. The ability to reconstruct high-quality 3D models from a limited number of views could be valuable for applications such as autonomous navigation, virtual reality, and 3D modeling. | Read more on HF |
| SAM2Point: Segment Any 3D as Videos in Zero-shot and Promptable Manners | Chengzhuo Tong, Xiangyang Zhu, Renrui Zhang, Chunyuan24, ZiyuG | This research paper introduces SAM2Point, a novel framework that adapts the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) for 3D segmentation. The method efficiently converts 3D data into a series of multi-directional videos, enabling SAM 2 to perform zero-shot segmentation without requiring any 2D-3D projection or additional training. SAM2Point supports various prompt types (e.g., 3D point, box, and mask) and demonstrates robust generalization across diverse 3D scenarios (e.g., 3D objects, indoor scenes, outdoor scenes, and raw LiDAR). This approach is particularly relevant for practitioners as it provides an efficient and highly generalizable way to perform 3D segmentation using a pre-trained model, effectively mitigating the data scarcity issue prevalent in 3D domains. | Read more on HF |
| CSGO: Content-Style Composition in Text-to-Image Generation | hobbyaih, NOVAglow646, syp115, wanghaofan, xingpng | The paper presents CSGO, a novel content-style-stylized image generation framework that utilizes a large-scale dataset, IMAGStyle, to achieve high-quality results in both image-driven and text-driven style transfer. CSGO is trained end-to-end, enabling zero-shot arbitrary style transfer through decoupled content and style feature injection. The key contributions of this work include: (1) a dataset construction pipeline that generates and automatically cleanses stylized data triplets; (2) a unified CSGO framework that leverages independent feature injection modules for content and style features; and (3) a Content Alignment Score (CAS) metric to evaluate the content preservation capabilities of the generated image. This paper is relevant to AI engineers and data scientists working on style transfer, as it offers a robust and efficient framework that can be readily implemented for various applications, such as image editing, art creation, and design. | Read more on HF |
| Physics of Language Models: Part 2.2, How to Learn From Mistakes on Grade-School Math Problems | Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Zicheng Xu, Tian Ye | The paper investigates whether language models can learn to correct their reasoning mistakes during generation by incorporating “retry data” into the training process. The authors find that training on data that contains erroneous steps immediately followed by their corrections significantly improves the reasoning accuracy of the language model, compared to training on error-free data. They also demonstrate that this approach does not require any modifications to the training process, such as label masking, and that it can be used effectively in conjunction with pre-trained models. These findings suggest that practitioners can directly benefit from incorporating retry data into the training of language models, particularly for tasks that require accurate and robust reasoning. | Read more on HF |
| 3D Reconstruction with Spatial Memory | Lourdes Agapito, HengyiWang | This research paper, titled "3D Reconstruction with Spatial Memory," presents Spann3R, a novel deep learning-based method for online 3D reconstruction. Spann3R is trained on ordered or unordered image collections without prior knowledge of the scene or camera parameters and directly regresses point maps from images, which is expressed in a common coordinate system. It achieves this by utilizing a spatial memory, which learns to store and access all previously relevant 3D information. By removing the need for optimization-based global alignment, Spann3R facilitates real-time online incremental reconstruction. The authors demonstrate that Spann3R achieves competitive performance compared to prior methods while being significantly faster. For practitioners, this research offers a more efficient and scalable approach for online 3D reconstruction tasks that can be applied in various domains such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, and robotics. | Read more on HF |
| StyleRemix: Interpretable Authorship Obfuscation via Distillation and Perturbation of Style Elements | Mitchell Gordon, yejinchoinka, Ximing, hallisky, jrfish | This paper introduces StyleRemix, an interpretable and adaptable authorship obfuscation method that uses fine-grained style elements to rewrite text while preserving content and maintaining fluency. StyleRemix leverages pre-trained LoRA modules to rewrite text along specific style axes, such as formality or length, resulting in more robust obfuscation than prior methods. The authors introduce two new datasets: AuthorMix, a large-scale corpus of 30K texts from 14 authors and four domains, and DISC, a high-quality parallel corpus spanning seven stylistic axes, demonstrating the effectiveness of the model. StyleRemix outperforms prior methods in both automatic and human evaluation. This work has significant implications for practitioners working in anonymous writing, text anonymization, and privacy-preserving text generation. | Read more on HF |
| Scaling Up Diffusion and Flow-based XGBoost Models | TaewooKim, JesseCresswell | This paper investigates the engineering challenges and algorithmic improvements for applying XGBoost in diffusion and flow-matching models for tabular data generation. The authors identify and resolve several key implementation issues in prior work, including memory management, data duplication, and parallelization, enabling an efficient and scalable implementation of XGBoost-based generative models. Furthermore, they propose multi-output trees and early stopping as algorithmic improvements. The results show that the proposed method scales to much larger datasets than previously possible and leads to improvements in both model performance and resource efficiency. This work provides valuable insights for practitioners in the field of tabular generative modeling, offering practical guidance for engineering efficient and scalable models based on XGBoost. | Read more on HF |
| Meta Flow Matching: Integrating Vector Fields on the Wasserstein Manifold | Leo J. Lee, Mathieu Blanchette, Brandon Amos, Xi Zhang, Lazar Atanackovic | The paper proposes a new method, Meta Flow Matching (MFM), for learning the dynamics of interacting particles. Unlike current flow-based models, which are limited to a single initial population and predefined conditions, MFM can generalize to previously unseen populations by integrating along vector fields on the Wasserstein manifold. The authors demonstrate the ability of MFM to improve prediction of individual treatment responses on a large scale multi-patient single-cell drug screen dataset. This work may be relevant to practitioners in a variety of fields, such as AI engineers, data scientists, and bioinformaticians, who are interested in modeling complex systems with interacting particles. MFM can be used to develop more accurate and personalized treatment regimens for patients with various diseases. | Read more on HF |